Hewitson Monopole Shiraz 2022

There are plenty of important words on the front and back labels of this wine worth delving into for a better understanding of its worth. “Monopole” noting its exclusivity to the producer. “Mother Vine” referring to its provenance, buds selected “from one ancient Shiraz vine planted in 1853” within the Old Garden Vineyard at Rowland Flat in the Barossa Valley’s mid-south, replanted over years into a single vineyard of its own origins in the Dorrien district between Tanunda and Nuriootpa. With that background, the wine brings its history into the glass with a delightful dark red rose floral note, entwined into its crimson to black fruit crush bouquet made more complex with deeper layers of old leather and heritage library smells. Sit right there and take it all in for as long as you desire – it’s so evocative. What awaits next is a fully captured essence of great Barossa Shiraz: dark fruits, plum compote, high percentage cacao with a subtle edge of bitterness. All of it a great celebration of wine in its finest form of story and gastronomic achievement.