Dandelion Vineyards Lionheart of the Barossa Shiraz 2020
G 94
Good vintage of Lionheart with intense choc-blackberry fruits with a nice touch of baked earth and white pepper plus a distinctly savoury aromatic edge. The palate is then chewy and textured with meaty, spicy components, providing imrpessive complexity and detail before a long, chalky finish. Now–2030 Elderton Wines Helbig 1915 Shiraz 2020 G 94 Deeply coloured and flavoured, this is a big, chocolaty style with classic lifted blackberry, dark plum, spicy, praline aromas with dried apricot complexity. Rich and voluminous, there are lashings of blackberry, dark plum, dark chocolaty cacao flavours, fine loose-knit graphite textures and beautifully integrated vanilla, spicy, marzipan oak with balanced fresh acidity to finish. Now–2032 First Drop Wines ‘ Fat of the Land ’ Greenock Single Vineyard Shiraz 2016 G 94 Deep crimson and a step up from the Ebenezer Shiraz thanks to intense black cherry, liquorice and mocha aromas well backed by concentrated black cherry and mocha flavours, fine chocolaty, grippy/graphite textures, and fresh aniseed notes. Fresh mineral acidity provides brightness and impact to the finish. Now–2028 Head Wines Wilton Hill Shiraz 2019 G 94 Medium-deep crimson in colour and showing rich dark plum, dark cherry, mocha and liquorice aromas. The palate follows along the same vein and is well concentrated with dark plum, dark cherry fruits, fine brambly al dente textures before finishing firm with espresso, mocha notes with an inky plume. Now–2028 Heirloom Vineyards A’Lambra Shiraz 2020 G 94 Opaque ruby in colour and a solid step up from the Heirloom Shiraz with plenty of fruit complexity on offer. Tarry, liquorice, blackberry fruit aromas to start, with a spicy/violet lift and well judged oak in a modern, powerful style. The palate is then punchy and dense – rich, ripe dark berry fruits, vanillin oak and mouth coating tannins showcase a wine built for the cellar, as does a long, sinewy finish. 2028–2038
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