K1 by Geoff Hardy Tzimmukin Adelaide Hills 2017

These guys are not that well known for weird and wonderful names for their wines, nothing wrong with that, so this is a bit out of the box. Tzimmukin was apparently a style of wine created in biblical times using dried grapes. Here, the team have taken top parcels of Shiraz and Cabernet, the quintessential Australian red blend, and air-dried them. This tends to increase strength and theoretically longevity. Maturation was for twenty months in older French oak. The wine is already approaching a decade in age, so I suspect that puts the longevity argument to rest. Under Diam, we might just have a winner in the ‘no need to go to the gym if you are picking up a few bottles of this’ stakes. There is certainly a slight raisiny, dried fruit character to the wine. Blood red, there are dusty aromas of warm earth, animal skins, mulberries, mushrooms, dried herbs, cranberries and beef stock. It really would be fascinating to see this wine in another ten to twenty years. I have no doubt it will be still going strong. The texture is quite sleek and there is serious length. Fine acidity is there for the full journey. The palate sees more chocolatey notes emerging.