Zonte’s Footstep Super Trooper Shiraz Cabernet 2019

First, allow us to call the team on what is obviously a failed attempt to divert attention with the name. They claim that the moniker refers to a car. No one is buying that. Clearly, they have an ABBA fan in the marketing team. The fruit is a mix of Langhorne Creek Cabernet and McLaren Vale Shiraz. Fermentation is in stainless steel and also open fermenters, before the wine spends a year maturing in a mix of new and older hogsheads. A lovely deep maroon. Notes of plums, cherries, warm earth and dried herbs, fresh beetroot, chocolate and tobacco leaves. An appealing and attractively fragrant nose. The texture is smooth and supple with soft tannins and a lingering finish with a nice flick of acidity. Good value, this will drink well over the next five to eight years, and is a lovely wine. One might even say a wine shining like the sun, if one had any familiarity with ABBA lyrics. Which one does not.