Tellurian Heathcote Evo Shiraz Mataro 2022

‘Sourced from a plethora of plantings across our Vineyard, individual ferments are selected to create a lighter bodied, fruit focused Shiraz. Mourvèdre from our 2011 planting, lends its herbaceous and spice-driven qualities to further add a vibrancy and lifted acid profile. Destemmed and crushed to open top fermenters with small parcels added as whole bunches. Fermented in a mixture of stainless steel and concrete fermenters with 14-16 days on skins. 10 months in a combination of French Barriques, Puncheons and Demi-Muids, 10% of which were new.’ 

While the Tranter, GSM and Sommet are showing some signs of tertiary development, the Evo is still a definite young’un. Like its cousins, it has high alcohol but hides it exceptionally well behind concentrated layers of flavour, structure and dusty, teeth-coating tannins and mouth-filling silkiness. There’s loads of blueberry, mulberry, boysenberry, raspberry, spice, pepper, herbs, confectionery… the list could go on. This is the sort of wine that you can sit there just smelling for twenty minutes before you actually taste it, as the aromas are just that enticing. I predict it will improve even more with some extended ageing.