Grant Burge, Meshach Shiraz

Grant Burge, Meshach ShirazThe 2016 Meshach Shiraz is a blend of several old vine parcels located between Rowland Flat and Tanunda and yields that average between one and two tonnes per acre. Matured a year and a half in 18% new French oak hogsheads, with the balance from second to sixth use, it exhibits aromas of cigar box (vanilla, cedar and spice) alongside ripe blackberry and mulberry fruit. Full bodied, velvety and rich, it's tannic and built to age but isn't entirely

it’s medium to full-bodied

opulent finish

quinine and saltwater

There is excellent richness to the relatively generous and round yet attractively intense and saline middle weight flavors that benefit from an abundance of dry extract that coats the mouth on the lemony finish

the team here had harvested everything other than their top Riesling

spice and mineral flavors

the nose on this is very much in the red-berry spectrum

He follows a unique winemaking philosophy that is somewhere on the spectrum between traditionalists and modernist

powerful and fresh

and the barrels are only 10% new

There is little doubt the 2001 is shaping up to be one of the most elegant Sorì San Lorenzos ever made

it doesn t quite have the level of fleshiness and depth that is found in so many wines from Bolgheri in 2006