SC Pannell Merrivale Shiraz 2021

#1 of 30 2021 Shiraz from McLaren Vale - The colour sets the scene for a promising wine: it's a profound, almost opaque purple colour, and stains the glass. The bouquet is reserved and shy, latent and dense, brooding and powerful and it's the same on the palate. Tar, graphite, ironstone and black soil. A bold, robust shiraz, full-bodied and muscular, with tremendous middle-palate fruit sweetness, richness and masses of ripe, smooth tannins. Impressive concentration and persistence. The regional fruit shines like a beacon. A heroic red wine with a great future. Huon Hooke