Greenock Creek Roennfeldt Road Shiraz 2016

The jewel in the crown. The wine you would expect to step up and shine brightest and it lets no one down. A stunningly impressive Barossa Shiraz. Again, vines exceeding 120 years of age only this time, the wine sits in American and not French oak. 15.5% alcohol, normally a sign for caution, but this wine is so immaculately balanced that you’d never guess. 

The colour is black as coal. Notes of plums and prunes, blackberries and chocolate, dried fruits and figs. This is rich, ripe, big, bold and intense. There is real power here. A flick of acidity but as with everything to do with this beautiful blockbuster, it is perfectly balanced. It is that balance which is the key to its greatness and the potential it has to outlive us all. The finish is incredibly long. Outside of a great PX sherry or the brilliant Rutherglen muscats, hard to think what matches it for length on the finish or the intensity it holds. This one might actually be for your great-grandchildren.