Chateau Yaldara GSM Barossa 2016

Cracking Rhône style blend but all Barossa in flavour. Before we get into the ins and outs, the price for this wine seems to sit around the $60 mark, give or take. First, that is cracking value for such a delicious wine, considering that the current release of Grange is 2018. This is two years older and a squillionth of the price. Not suggesting it is a better wine than the current Grange, but for anyone looking for value with an older release, look no further (the current Grange is $1,000 a bottle in case you were wondering). Still bright crimson in colour and just not showing its age at all. This is supple, plush, soft and approachable. We have notes of chocolate, leather, animal skins, tobacco leaves, licorice and dry herbs with good complexity already evident. The wine picks up even more on the palate which is richly flavoured, balanced and shows excellent length. Fine tannins and a seductive texture but this wine still has a good ten years ahead of it and shows how good this vintage always was. Cracking wine, cracking value.