Thicker Than Water Obscura Shiraz 2023
- 94
- $200
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A wide-shouldered McLaren Vale Shiraz with a deep top dressing of oak – in this case soaked in 30 months of 70% new French and American hogshead barrels. Know this before you approach and you won’t be taken by surprise at the hugely timbered bouquet, which to its credit allows a modicum of rich and sweet, plum-jammy Shiraz to show its colours as well, both at first and more so in the palate, which is held tightly in the finish by well defined, barrel-derived tannins. Nothing shy about this Shiraz – it’s all big country bravado and ten gallon hats.
Tony is best known for his 10 years as News Corp’s National Wine Writer, with weekly columns in major metropolitan mastheads throughout Australia including The Adelaide Advertiser, The Sydney Daily Telegraph and the Melbourne Herald Sun. He continues to write feature articles and columns for all the major Australian wine media publications. Tony has also worked as a restaurant reviewer, section editor, book editor, digital content provider, journalism teacher and was named Wine Communicators of Australia 2018 Legend of the Vine (SA). Find out more about Tony at tonylove.com.au
