Schwarz Wine Company Nitschke Block Shiraz 2022

From a fine Barossa vintage, this is a single vineyard wine from the Nitschke Road block, planted in 1968 in the Bethany sub-region. An opaque maroon with a dark purple rim, the nose exhibits notes of coffee beans, chocolate, axle grease, cassis, tar, blackberries, mocha and cloves. Richly flavoured, the wine has good depth and intensity, concluding with fine tannins and a lingering finish. At the moment, a wine of medium length – to go to the next level, needs to develop a little more length, which will hopefully arrive in the coming years. Whatever happens, it should certainly provide pleasure over the next eight to ten years.