Savitas Wines Incygnes Shiraz 2016
- 94
- $45
- Drink by: 2025 - 2030
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Savitas commenced with the purchase of the Greens Vineyard in the Barossa Valley, which is home to Shiraz and Grenache. Vines were first planted in this vineyard in 1970. Wines under the Incygnes label are all sourced only from estate fruit. This Shiraz is blended from grapes sourced from different parts of the vineyard, to ensure a mix of soil types and also younger and older plantings, all adding to the complexity. Open top fermenters are used before extended time on skins and then 18 months in French oak.
This is an inky maroon in colour, nearing black. The nose gives notes of blackfruits, plums, chocolate, a little leather and some fruitcake characters. There is some oak noticeable, but it is really well integrated. This is still very young, backed by bright acidity through to firm tannins. Good concentration and real length. For me, this will be a better wine in 5 to 8 years, too young now but offering a really promising future. Will impress more in time, and score even higher. At $45 a bottle, excellent value for a wine of this quality.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
