Sorby Adams The Parish Hall St Boniface Barossa Shiraz 2021

The final wine in the Parish trilogy/tribute to Great Uncle Keith, this one saw its two year maturation take place in American oak. The fruit is from the Kalimna and Ebenezer sub-regions in the Barossa, famous names. Purple maroon in colour, the nose is redolent with both red and black fruits, plums, chocolate, spices, warm earth and black olives. This is finely crafted, utterly seamless with a flick of oak, but it is well integrated with the palate offering gorgeous molten notes of chocolate – all very Barossa. This is delicious and will surely be so for at least the next decade. My only quibble is that the team have suggested a food pairing involving celeriac, which makes one wonder what on earth the wine did to offend them. For me, cracking drinking and even better if one avoids celeriac.