Micro Wines Shiraz, 2019, 750ml
$29
Description
The “winery block” of Bannockburn’s estate vineyard provides this shiraz, which was planted by Gary Farr in 1987. One of the few sites in Victoria, and really Australia as a whole, where we see an ancient seabed near the surface, rather than being covered by more recent geological formations.
Tasting notes: A heady nose of dark fruits, dried lavender, acacia, and myrtle. The palate is rich and supple, but with a transparency and vivacity to the fruit. Flavors of Davidson plum (a sour native plum), combined with riper black- and boysenberry, saltbush, pepperberry. Fine and linear, with a soft cushion of ripeness leading to moderately grippy tannins.