Yelland & Papps Limited Cuvée Old Vine Shiraz 2018

This comes off 60-year-old vines of the Old Bamboo Creek Vineyard in Greenock. The quality of the fruit allows a substantial mix of first-fill French oak puncheons and additional seasoned oak to be used without compromising the fruit expression. Dense and concentrated with tremendous power driving from a deep midpalate core. Dark savoury plummy fruit with a faint hint of dried herbs and coffee grinds. This is rich and syrupy with such poise.