Yelland and Papps Limited Cuvée Shiraz 2023

This comes from a 1960 planted Shiraz vineyard in Greenock. The rich, deep colour points to its power and intensity. But this is a lavish wine with texture and fruit concentration that is perfectly crafted and refined. That combination of basket pressing and gentle extraction, and maturation before going into oak sets the wine up. This one gets a little more new French oak than a lot of the Yelland and Papps wines with 50% in new French oak punctions where it was left for 24 months. But the rich, opulent fruit has absorbed that oak perfectly for a seamless, layered complexity. This is a wine that’s built for some ageing.