Atze’s Corner Giant Single Vineyard Barossa Valley Durif 2022

Durif tends to be a variety that likes plenty of warmth, and it needs to get fully ripe to display the full range of its aromas and palate flavours. This comes up from Koonunga in the north and comes off a vineyard that is relatively low yielding but correspondingly delivers intense, concentrated fruit. It’s full-bodied with all of those dark blackberry fruits and a slightly ironstone edge to it. The palate is smooth and seamlessly structured. It has none of the excessive heat that you can often get with this variety, and the tannins have been well managed. It’s an interesting wine and certainly worth a look.