[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Seven Acre Shiraz 2014

 

"I can't write about this wine. It's just too damn polished and perfect. The more air it's had, the more tantalising it has become. We're back at that Casbah, but with a mad purée of all the above redlining everywhere around us.

Days ago, it had a pretty necklace of violets, musky confectioners' sugar, a faint tease of lavendar and crystallised lemon. Those dainties have gradually subsided as the impenetrable syrup of fruits and minerals and terpenes and tannins lock shoulders and climb out of the glass like an SAS platoon in warpaint. Before you hear an accent, you can tell it's them by their eyes.

Like the other 2014s, this is a mighty wine. Indeed, it is the mightiest Shiraz of the vintage, as well as being the most elegant and gracious. This wine is as fit as a fiddle. There have been Seven Acre wines which boasted more overt fresh fruits. Some have boasted more flesh; fattier acids. Many have boasted higher alcohol. Some - not many - have had more silky polish; others velvet or coarser satin in the tannin division. But I can't recall one this racy and lean with so much of everything so cleanly and elegantly woven into its design. This is red wine of an extremely high order. Proceed without caution." - Phillip White

 

Country:

Australia

Region:

SA- Barossa Valley

Variety:

Wine Red - Shiraz

Size:

750mL