Brokenwood Wines Graveyard Vineyard Shiraz 2019

The Graveyard Shiraz is always a wine that takes patience. Drinking and even tasting it young is a serious waste of what is a super wine and this vintage in particular took a couple of days to come round, but it was well worth the wait.

The key to Graveyard is impeccable balance. There is no use expecting fireworks when young as this is not a wine that jumps out and grabs you straight away. It grows on you and it is only after a glass or two that it all starts to make sense.

It opens with quite elegant red and dark berry fruits rounded off with tobacco and baked earthy edges plus caramel-scented oak, all in balance. On the palate it gets much more serious and savoury – earthy, Middle Eastern spices take over, with great concentration that then drives a long supple finish, with quite open-knit tannins. It finishes strong with no hint of fading which shows this wine will age well. Don’t even touch it for five years and then only with a slow cooked fillet of beef.