After Five Wine Co. Montepulciano 2020

Fruit for Purple Hands alternatives is sourced from winemaker Craig Stansborough’s vineyard that sits at the southern end of the Barossa. Goodness they get a lot in here for 13.5%. While there’s definitive regional characters, it’s chocked with plump chary, burnt-ends meatiness under globs of black plums, blueberries, blackberries and fragrant dried kitchen herbs. Palate is firm and drying, balanced by ripe fruit. Punchy acidity shares equal billing with grippy, fine tannin. Let me stand next to the spit roast lamb with a glass of this in hand and pick at sweet, crispy flesh.