Bec Hardy McLaren Vale Shiraz 2021

The pick of this collection of releases, a cracking McLaren Vale Shiraz. It too, reflects the vintage, and what a good vintage it is. Dark purple, we have notes of chocolate, warm freshly turned earth, dry herbs, mulberries, leather and olives. Plush and generous, it displays a lovely softer structure than some. Most welcoming in style, and nicely balanced with a very long finish. This is a cracker which is richly flavoured and focused. Ten years drinking ahead of it and it should give enormous pleasure for the full decade. Terrific value.