Curtis Small Batch McLaren Vale Shiraz 2019

One of the great wine styles from this country, McLaren Vale Shiraz. The grapes for this wine were hand harvested from 80-year-old vines. They were gently destemmed and then cold-soaked for two weeks, before fermentation took place over a similar period. Then a gentle pressing into a mix of new and 2-year-old American Oak barrels. Deep garnet in colour, this is a full flavoured style offering ripe fruits, tobacco leaves, dry herbs, chocolate, coffee beans, cranberries, bergamot and warm earth. Noticeably youthful, it also has a seductive texture and good focus with excellent length through to silky tannins. Attractive now, but even better if one can hold off for a couple of years and then drink it over the next decade, at which time the score will surely rise.