3 Rings Shiraz 2022

This really is fabulous buying. Twenty bucks and a wine which will elevate your everyday drinking or seriously impress your wine-snobby friends (every group has them and if you think you don’t then perhaps it is you) at the next barbecue. More evidence of what an excellent vintage 2022 is in the Barossa. Take advantage. From the estate’s Biscay Road Vineyard, the wine spent time in a mix of new and older American oak before bottling. The colour is a dark blood red garnet. The nose exhibits an array of lifted aromatics, including chocolate, blackcurrants, licorice, soy, plums, cloves and even a touch of charcoal. There is good balance here, satiny tannins and decent length with a flick of acidity running the full journey. Such cracking value, this should drink well over the next decade.