Watkins Ruscello Sangiovese 2022

The Watkins family vineyard in Langhorne Creek provides for a range of traditional and newer wines, this sitting in a series titled “Mad Cousins” which banners together alternative varietals, inventive blends and creative styles. And so to Sangiovese, with its lovely garnet colour in the glass and more savoury notes through the sensories. Quite lifted at first, aromas suggesting old cellars and leathery lounges, oak in play to begin as well as following into the palate where it offers a woody backbone to modest black tea and black cherry fruit flavours. Quite compact in structure, the wine sits in a medium bodied zone yet with surprising power and drive. A wine that has quite a bit of old-school charm, and plenty of cellar-worthy time on its hands.