Head Wines The Brunette Shiraz 2018

Moppa in the Barossa is home to thick, syrupy shiraz – elegance and subtlety are not words often used to describe wines from this piece of dirt, a sub-region of Greenock in the Northern Barossa.

And this wine fits the stereotype like a glove. Black as the ace of spades in colour, dense fruit is the first impression from this wine, the essence of the Barossa, boiled down. It is bold with licorice allsorts and blackberry jam fruits plus some ironstone thrown in the mix and sweet oak. In the mouth, it is equally rich and fleshy with tarry fruit and chewy tannins driving a long and firm finish. This is a wine that needs time to settle or match it up with the biggest tomahawk steak you can find hot off a flame grill.

Angus Hughson

Founder at Winepilot

Angus is an award-winning wine writer and the Founder and Publisher of Winepilot, the Australian Editor for leading international publication VINOUS with Antonio Galloni based in New York City and the Co-Publisher of The Australian Ark with over 15 years of publishing, writing and judging experience.

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