Leeuwin Estate Art Series Shiraz 2023
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- $51
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From a much lauded vintage in Margaret River comes Leeuwin Estate’s top Shiraz offering. This is a wine of elegance and freshness, though with some coiled complexity keen to unfurl over time. It opens with blackberry pastilles and dusty cedar oak before fleshing out with dried violets, black pepper, iodine minerality, plum, raspberry, blueberry and a saline nori-like element. Some black olive and brown spice savouriness emerge with air along with some earthy notes. It’s elegant and finely tuned with a sense of freshness. The palate is cool and svelte with a lifted feel and medium weight at most. Dark cherry, blackberry, pepper spice, plum. It’s linear and taut with a firm frame of grainy tannins funneling the wine to good length.
Tom Kline is a wine writer, reviewer, presenter, and educator based in Victoria, Australia. He is the Australian correspondent for the internationally respected publications Jasper Morris Inside Burgundy and Jane Anson Inside Bordeaux, where he highlights the top tier of Australian wine for a global audience. Tom also writes for leading outlets including Decanter (UK), Wine Spectator (US), and Halliday Magazine, among others. An experienced wine show judge and WSET educator, he has authored several consumer-focused wine courses aimed at making wine more accessible and engaging. In 2023, Tom was awarded Best Published Feature Article or Wine Column at the prestigious Wine Communicator Awards, presented by Wine Communicators of Australia.
