Vintage
2023
ABV
14.5%
Wine Type
Red
Wine Style
Still
COLOUR
Dark and yet bright and as if it could shine black light at midnight.
AROMA
Powdered concentrate of plum extract used to flavour Elven bread. Moss on a dark ravine’s sunless wall. Mint and blackberry intertwined in some fairytale ending. A blend of all the aromatics of the Barossa and the barest bouquet of the lady-winemaker’s art (or is that deception?) Aniseed and blackberry and eucalyptus and raisins; cedar and vanilla and the bloodied sawdust of a butcher’s shop floor. Heroic and harmful and on the wing.
PALATE
Fine red wine - which we submit this is - is always about a sweet-spot. The line between fruit ripeness and fruit savouriness. It can seem apparent in some wines; in others it has a quiet reserve. This wine has a diving-bell depth of black fruits; yet in the next sip those same fruits seem to soar, as if in Spring flower. Tannins then trail as if in clouds of glory - or are they a dark wake in a gravel sea? You need another glass to see.
OVERALL
From vineyard to glass a line of awkward veracity runs, as if some red wine can know more than truth or beauty, or both. Which is why a Weisswurst Sausage and a spoonful of German Mustard can resolve the corollary, almost.
Elena Brooks & Alexandra Haselich
