Mr Riggs The Chap Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon 2020

The colour is something akin to a black hole – so deep, opaque and impenetrable. It’s a blend of McLaren Vale Shiraz and Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon, and this is just the fifth release from the first in 2012. The McLaren Vale component from the cooler Clarendon subregion brings both elegance and a vibrant middle palate, sweetness and density. The earlier ripening Coonawarra input is all about structure and definition. But this is not a bruising big wine. It is refined and elegantly presented with a brilliance and purity of fruit. Hard to put down now, but cellaring for 20 years would not be a problem.