[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Casey's Block Shiraz 2016

"I can’t believe this vineyard is only 8 years old. Sure, this wine has plenty of juvenile cheek, with fleshy teen fruit wrapped in matching brash oak, but it also has the sort of authority you’ll find in the soul of great vineyards a century older. This is no nouveau or joven, made to drink young. This is just a baby real old wine. It has the shades that remind me of British racing green and big radiata pine trees, with ravens and juniper.

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That big chunky bark. You know those smells. Then come the grapes. Extracted, intense, fully skwoze. Dark as. Sinuous. Lissom. Fit. Currants. Coke: not so much the drink, but the stuff blacksmiths fan on the forge. Like that acrid nose-prickling whangsplat of hammer on white hot billet and anvil. Cinnamon and nutmeg; maybe clove. Wrapped in a rich blackberry jam; a blackcurrant jelly. With thick freshwhipped cream. Toasted raisin bread Sorry to confuse you. But brash, audacious wines of such presumption and promise confuse, and better, bedazzle me. I stare in awe at their tatts."

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Philip White

 

  Vegan-friendly  

Country:

Australia

Region:

SA- Barossa Valley

Variety:

Wine Red - Shiraz

Size:

750mL