Tenafeate Creek Wines GSM 2023

From the One Tree Hill/Mount Lofty Ranges region, this is the very epitome of no shrinking violet. Exuberant flavours throughout here in this fabulous example of a famous blend. The individual varieties were all made and aged discretely – Grenache and Shiraz in older French oak and the Mataro in stainless for a year. Of the entire Tenefeate reds release, this was my favourite for drinking now, although rest assured that, like all of the wines, it has an exciting future ahead of it. Deep purple, this is redolent of cherries, raspberries, blueberries, violets, black fruits, licorice and warm earth. Finely balanced, with very good length and sleek tannins, this is delicious now with at least six to eight years of improvement ahead. Cracking value and a really good example of the blend.