Huon Hooke
Deep, dense purple/red colour, bright and brooding. The bouquet is very rich and essency, plummy and vanillan, with concentrated dark plum and chocolate flavours, full-bodied and ample in the mouth, the tannins soft and fine and mouth-coating. The shiraz is dominating at this stage, with blackberry and graphite notes chiming in. It's a rich, soft, cuddly wine with lovely balance and flavour, albeit not that detailed or complex. Perhaps that will come with time. It certainly has time on its side. (From a single vineyard at Greenock. To be released in November 2020)
Tasted: 23/06/2020
Drink: 2021 to 2040