The plush Barossa Valley Estate E&E Black Pepper Shiraz is sourced from some of the best mature and independently dry grown vineyards in the northern Barossa sub-region of Moppa and Ebenezer. With an average age of over 60 years, these vineyards yield fruit of great power and finesse. The wine is made in open headed down fermenters and then aged in a combination of new and one and two year old American and French oak for between 12 and 18 months. The wine is incredibly intense and concentrated with dark choco-berry liquorice fruit, ripe tannins, mid-palate richness and underlying malty oak complexity. With all the structural attributes for medium to long term cellaring, it has very strong currency in the secondary market.Andrew Caillard MW