Golden Amrita Lumenval Moppa Shiraz 2020

From their Moppa vineyard, this is the first release of this wine. There is a small percentage of whole bunches incorporated. Ageing is mostly in French oak with a large format barrel and a ceramic egg also part of the regime. The colour here is an opaque purple, while the perfumed nose offers chocolate, graphite, aniseed, coffee grinds, notes of espresso and well integrated oak. This is big and bold and the palate sees a move to more of those mocha flavours. The wine is ripe, concentrated and focused and we can see the emergence of some savoury aspects with cloves and warm earth. The wine has firm tannins and excellent length. Thoroughly enjoyable now, it will undoubtedly improve over the next ten to twelve years.