Curator Wines Seppeltsfield Vineyard Shiraz 2022

For me, this is the absolute star of the range, among some serious competition. From a vineyard at Seppeltsfield, which was planted back in the 1950s, the wine saw 18% of whole bunches (the remainder whole berries) in the ferment – a natural fermentation – before it was pressed to French oak, 15% new, for maturation over the next year and a half. Only 2,100 bottles sealed under diam. A near opaque maroon hue here, the aromas swirl around giving us characters reminiscent of plush new leather, chocolate, tar, mocha, ripe plums, graphite, licorice, bay leaves and blueberries. A creamy texture leading to fine, supple tannins, this is a wine of great length which never waivers in intensity. A twenty year proposition. Just gorgeous.