The Drink Business
byColin Haythe2/28/2024
This was released in late January. Smoky. Plump and plush, ripe but fresh and almost slightly leafy in its fruit profile – which is rare for Australian Shiraz. Patchouli candles and their wax, a little hint of the struck match to light then, and that deep, dark stone fruit with generous cracked black peppercorns and sweet spicing. A touch of vanilla. Ample but the girth immediately reined in by the grippy, structuring tannins breaking in from the exterior. Quite dense at the core and intense but with plenty of dynamism from the fresher, more sapid notes – which don’t so much well up from underneath and break it through the sides as the tannins grip and massage the fruit. Sage. Slightly oaky still.