2022 Mount Pleasant Rosehill Shiraz

From vines planted in in 1965 this wine incorporated 15% whole bunches in the ferment and maturation took place in large format French oak for a period of 11 months. Totally opaque black dark red colour with a vibrant dark red hue. Smoky dark plum and liquorice aromas are intertwined with dried clove, earth, black olive and peppered meat notes. Medium bodied fleshy dark plum and liquorice fruits are overlaid by smoky clove, dried meat, vanillin cedar, black olive and peppered earth characters. Meaty feel with polished yet slightly chewy tannins. Finishes with a long smoky earth, black olive and blackpepper laced aftertaste.
Cellar 6-8 years.
Alc. 13.5%

Other Reviews….
Ferrous red loam over a limestone substrata. Always bright wines from this site, marked by pitched red fruit accents. Soaring florals from lilac to peony. Molten raspberry, tonka bean and licorice strap. Meaty with air. The tannins, buoyant and chiselled, a welcome relief to this mid-weighted wine's lilt of joy and effusive energy. Don't be fooled. This will age very well. Drink or hold. Screw cap.
95 Points
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