Barossa Wine Guide 2024

Schubert Estate The Gosling Shiraz 2018

Deep crimson. Black cherry, dark chocolate aromas with walnutty notes. Richly flavoured with abundant dark and red berry fruits, attractive inky density and persistent chocolaty tannins. Walnutty notes at the finish. Drink now–2028 14.5% alc Sorby Adams The Thing Shiraz 2019 Deep crimson. Complex black cherry, blackcurrant marzipan wax polish, hint coal dust aromas. Deep-set choco-berry fruits with marzipan, graphite notes. Some cherry liqueur/bourbon nuances at the finish with crunchy freshness. A big wine. Drink now–2032 15% alc Grant Burge Balthasar Shiraz 2022 Deep crimson. Ripe blackberry, hint boysenberry aromas with hints of mocha/espresso. Sweet-fruited and inky deep with plentiful elderberry, blackberry, boysenberry fruits, chocolaty firm textures and long minerally acidity. Cedar/leafy firm at the finish. Drink now–2034 14.5% alc Henschke Henry’s Seven Shiraz Grenache Mataro Viognier 2023 Deep crimson. Fresh elderberry, raspberry apricot aromas with only herb garden notes. Richly concentrated and slinky textured with ample dark berry, stone fruit flavours, fine supple tannins, underlying savoury notes and long fresh crisp acidity. Matured in primarily 5% new French and seasoned oak. 81% Shiraz, 11% Grenache, 6% Mataro, 2% Viognier. Medium-term wine, but ready to drink now. Drink now–2031+ 14.5% alc

Barons of Barossa Barons Shiraz 2019

Deep crimson. Powerful bouquet, black plum, black cherry, with intriguing hints of mint, dried herbs and tarragon. Big, full bodied and muscular, offering huge depth of blackberry, with cola overtones. Ripe, slightly evolved tannins. Pulls up slightly short on the finish. Drink now– 2029 14.5% alc

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