Haselgrove Catkin McLaren Vale Shiraz 2023

Catkins are the bunches of Hazel flowers seen in late winter and believed to signify the origin of harvest. The fruit used here hails from four separate sites in McLaren Vale. Each parcel is made discretely and only blended after twenty months maturation in a combination of new and older French oak. The colour here is a deep purple in the shape of a big, bold and full throttle McLaren Vale Shiraz. It offers good concentration with notes of blackcurrants, bay leaves, cloves, black olives, black fruits, cassis and especially chocolate. With time in the glass, the wine opened up even more and those black fruits, especially cassis, really came to dominate. Soft, supple, impressively long and with silky tannins, this is really good. Enjoy it for at least the next ten to twelve years, likely longer.