Greenock Creek Third Estate Shiraz 2023

This is from a single site in the Moppa sub-region in the Barossa Valley, which is planted to the R6 clone of Shiraz, also known as the Tahbilk clone, which has been grafted onto Viognier rootstocks. The team do believe that this gives a hint of stone fruit to the wine. The wine undergoes a cold fermentation and is basket-pressed into American oak for maturation for a year and a half. 1/3rd of the oak is new. Under cork. 2,400 bottles made. Black/maroon in colour with a bruised plum rim. There is real plushness here. Good freshness and energy matched with beautifully handled oak. A wine that is dense but dancing. That oak gives us notes of Madagascan vanilla along with the aromas of blackberries, mocha, plums, coffee beans, cocoa powder and licorice. The wine is an intriguing combination of silk and savoury. Finally balanced with serious length, there is an exciting mix of sleek and ever-so-slightly sandy tannins. This is a cracker. A 15-year proposition without hesitation.