Oliver’s Taranga Ihana 2022

Only 5,000 bottles are made of the Oliver’s premium red, a stunning McLaren Vale Shiraz given the Finnish name ‘Ihana’, which translates as wonderful. For someone who loves Finland, I could not be more excited – even more so as it is such a thrilling wine. Opaque maroon, this is intense, well balanced and showing some very early complexity. Florals, chocolate, leather, tar, cloves, dry herbs and mocha notes. A richly flavoured, generous and supple McLaren Vale Shiraz with good extraction, impressive intensity and incredible length. And yet, perhaps a little surprisingly, the wine still has elegance. For me, this just might be the best wine Corrina and her team have made. It would certainly be a contender. Fifteen to twenty years.