Château Yaldara Icon Shiraz 2022

Everything about this wine speaks of big gun attitude: an impressive bottle, cork closure and that magic word, “Icon”. It’s made to meet all the resulting expectations with concentrated black fruit and dark chocolate notes leading the nose, almost in a rum and raisin like vibe. That includes a good blast of sweet, coconutty oak that slides into the palate as well as the wine builds increasing power, hitting its full bodied peak with a generous dusting of black pepper, those intense black fruits – almost dried – remaining all the way with a surprising squish of blackberry acidity in the finish. If big is beautiful in your wine world, then this will give you plenty of joy.

Tony Love

Journalist at Winepilot

Tony is best known for his 10 years as News Corp’s National Wine Writer, with weekly columns in major metropolitan mastheads throughout Australia including The Adelaide Advertiser, The Sydney Daily Telegraph and the Melbourne Herald Sun. He continues to write feature articles and columns for all the major Australian wine media publications. Tony has also worked as a restaurant reviewer, section editor, book editor, digital content provider, journalism teacher and was named Wine Communicators of Australia 2018 Legend of the Vine (SA). Find out more about Tony at tonylove.com.au

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