Chateau Tanunda Terroirs of the Barossa Greenock Shiraz 2019

Greenock has quite a distinctive terroir producing some of the most opulent and concentrated red wines in the entire Barossa Valley. A step beyond generous, this wine combines all the rich vinous qualities of the sub-region, and accommodates them with some equally impressively – and, at times, downright intimidating – oak. It is a style that many red wine drinkers will love. If this isn’t the perfect steak wine, it comes close.

Earth, plum, black fruits, dark chocolate with sprinklings of woodsy spice on the bouquet. Greenock has shattered ironstone through its loamy-clay soils and there is definitely a ferrous quality amid the vibrant and powerful fruit flavours which are matched, it must be said, by equally insistent camphor-sandalwood oak.

It is a young wine starting out on a journey and should evolve over the next 10+ years.