GCV McAskill Shiraz
2021

Powerful and opulent while remaining complex and balanced, the wine is filled with dark and purple fruit richness, cedary oak, cake spice and mocha characters. The impressively concentrated palate offers terrific weight and multi-layered mouthfeel combined with beautifully melded tannins, finishing super long and gratifying.

A vibrant deep red with purple hues in the glass, the nose is generous and fruit driven with pure plum and black cherry fruit on full show. The palate flows with expansive red cherry that has toffee apple like top notes before waves of more serious tannins give contrast and a gently savoury inflection. The finish is long, vibrant and reflective of a wine with an incredible future ahead. Absolutely delicious in its youth but bound to grow significantly over the coming decade

Dense purple in colour, there is serious concentration immediately evident here. Depth and richness. The nose offers notes of dark chocolate, coffee grinds, cherries, licorice and gentle mocha. A rich and powerful Shiraz with exemplary focus. There is very impressive length here, through to fine tannins. This wine has a lifespan of at least ten to fifteen years, likely longer, and it will continue to improve over that time. A case in the cellar will seem like a brilliant investment in the years to come

This is a luscious shiraz with a firm scaffold of tannin. It’s both very ripe and very good. Raspberry, sweet plum, asphalt and mint flavours come wedded to smoky, toasty, cedarwood oak. Toast and asphalt are the key drivers of the flavour profile here. There’s a good deal of tannin here too, dry and sheeted, almost sandy. There’s warmth to the finish but it comes with flavour

Intriguingly, this Shiraz reveals itself in a captivating deep ruby hue that invites contemplation. As the first sip graces the palate, a subtle undercurrent of spice dances gracefully at the forefront, setting the stage for a very good wine