2020 Wild Duck Creek Estate Springflat Shiraz

First produced in 1991 Springflat Shiraz, along with Alan’s Cabernet, is one of two wines Wild Duck Creek Estate was founded on. Originally a single vineyard wine, Springflat Shiraz is now a blend of five specific sites; three in the north on Cambrian soils over Ironstone and Granite, and two in the south on clay loams over mudstone. Winemaker David Anderson and son Liam have a flair for producing extraordinarily rich and powerful wines that rank as some of Heathcote’s best.

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The wine that gets released every year. The perfect way to start a dry bucket tasting working up to the Duck Muck, as Dave Anderson prefers. Great to have Liam Anderson so deeply in on the business and shifting the dial on wines too.
Brooding and deep, breathy and rich. Starts off with mahogany and clove spice, ripe plums, salt bush and white pepper. Even and supple with huge impact on the pallet and washes of dark plum with fig and date, woody spices and cola. Opulence and balance hand-in-hand, but a huge impact, particularly with the incessant chew of sandy tannins. Bold strike! Go forth! Drink 2022 - 2030.
93 Points
Mike Bennie - The Wine Front