Kaesler Wines Old Vine Shiraz 2022
Medium-deep colour. Intense blackberry dark chocolate aromas with vanilla notes. Beautifully concentrated and inky deep with lovely pure blackberry pastille vanilla flavours, fine slinky textures, lovely mid- palate volume and mineral length. Some aniseed notes at the finish. The oak slightly at the fore, but will meld with a few more months of bottle age. Cork. Drink now–2036 14.5% alc Kalleske Wines Eduard Shiraz 2021 Deep crimson. Lifted blackberry pastille, dark chocolate, roasted almond, hint ginger aromas. Concentrated blackberry pastille, dark chocolate, mocha/marzipan flavours, plentiful loose-knit graphite tannins and a fresh line of aniseed. A muscular firm finish with lovely pure juicy dark berry fruits. Drink now–2036 Langmeil House of Lindner Shiraz 2019 Deep crimson. Intense blackberry, espresso aromas with vanilla marzipan notes. Inky deep blackberry, mulberry, roasted coffee, hint panforte flavours, fine sinewy textures and some aniseed notes. Classical Barossa Shiraz with richness, energy and torque. Should develop very well. Drink 2026–2040 14.5% alc Deep crimson. Blackberry, black cherry, mocha, wax polish aromas with some panforte notes. Deep-set choco-berry fruits, panforte. marzipan, mocha notes and dense chocolaty textures. Finishes gravelly, tangy and long. A plush style, but offset by animated structure. Drink now–2034 15.2% alc Poonawatta The 1880 Shiraz 2019 Deep crimson. Intense cherry liqueur, mocha, marzipan aromas with a hint of bush garrigue. Opulent wine with plush luxuriant dark cherry liqueur, blackberry pastille fruits, chocolaty firm tannins, abundant mid- palate volume and well-matched roasted almond, marzipan, mocha oak. Finishes chocolaty with hints of liquorice. The acidity, alcohol and tannins all work together to animate the fruit. Impressive, but drink within the next five years, or see how it goes. Drink now–2030? 15% alc Monteperle Wines Reserve Shiraz 2021
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