The Black Craft Shiraz, Barossa Valley 2022
£16.50
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Full-bodied and savoury with intense red and black fruit flavours
- The Barossa Valley is well known for its long hot summers allowing the grapes to reach full ripeness and develop rich flavours
- Aussie Shiraz is well known as the most full, thick and robust expression of this fantastic grape
- Rich flavours of blackberry compote, black pepper and sanguine with balanced acidity and fine, velvety tannins
- As the name implies, anything chargrilled works here as a pairing
- Winemakers Rolf Binder and Christa Deans craft superb expressions of the region in their small, hands-on winery in Tanuda
- Grape variety: Syrah(Shiraz)
- Vintage: 2022
- Type/Colour: Red
- Alcohol: 14%
- Bottle Size: 75cl
- Group: South Australia
Germans were the first free immigrants into Australia in the 1850s onwards. They planted Shiraz in Barossa. Germans also invented letter-press in the 1500s.The suspicion around the "magick" of a printing press at the coupled with the inky hands of the printers meant that the art became known as the Black Craft. The wine is an homage to both the German influence of the oldest wine making in Australia, as well as the letterpress.
All the black fruit and spice you love from Shiraz, with none of the over-ripe jamminess that some Aussie examples can be dogged by. A great wine for a meaty BBQ! - Nick Gorton, OWC