Claymore Dark Side of the Moon Shiraz 2022

The Pink Floyd album of the same name as this wine was a progressive music blockbuster, quite deep at times in its own style of story-telling. This Shiraz provides its own set of complexities: a smoky, charry, meaty layering in its aromatic greeting, dark roasted root veggies as well, while the fruit senses are mainly in the black cherry spectrum. Once tasted, there’s no escaping the darker fruit, high percentage cacao and obvious ground pepper notes. Give this some air-time for the wine to reveal the purity in its fruit expression, albeit dark-sided, as there’s plenty to appreciate now with a promise it will evolve successfully over the next 10 years. Excellent value.

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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