2022 Full Red Wines
Red wine – we like it, you like it. Sometimes it’s really red, sometimes it’s less red. Sometimes it’s Barossa Valley Shiraz, sometimes Coonawarra Cabernet or McLaren Vale Grenache. New world, old world, weird and wonderful, traditional and cutting edge – if it’s red and it passed the Tasting Panel’s approval,Barossa Valley Shiraz
Which is the least tannic red wine?
Tannins come from both grape skins and oak. Pinot Noir is generally fairly low in tannins, as is Gamay, Barbera and Dolcetto. Rosé, given its limited skin contact and typical fermentation in stainless steel, is usually very low in tannin.
Red wines that spend no time in oak, or which are matured in older oak tend to have less tannins too.
On the flipside Nebbiolo, Cab ...
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- Colab and Bloom McLaren Vale Shiraz 2022Special Price $20.00 Regular Price $25.00A deep purple colour announces a wine of depth and intensity. Flavours include black cherries, plum, dark chocolate blackberries and white pepper finished with a little smoky oak. Tannins are fine and supple, drink over the next 10 years. Learn More
- Dowie Doole Shiraz 2021Special Price $28.00 Regular Price $30.00A brilliantly complex yet powerful Shiraz. The Blewitt Springs plantings provide fragrance and delicious blue fruits, the California Road plantings bring blackstrap, black and blue fruits, power and chewy tannins. Wonderful already and should comfortably improve for more than a decade. Learn More
- Jeanneret Temperance League Shiraz 2022Special Price $22.00 Regular Price $30.00A single vineyard Shiraz, which is big, enriched with vanilla oak oak and spice, plums, blue fruit, black fruit and chocolate. Super easy, lip-smacking drinking. Learn More
- Karl’s Scepter Barossa Valley Cabernet 2022Special Price $30.00 Regular Price $38.00A powerful Barossa Cab which announces itself with varietally appropriate aromatic lift in the form of violets and greenery. The palate is concentrated, replete with blackcurrant and blackberries along with macerating cherries and spice. Plenty of cedar and plenty of fine to medium weight tannins to finish. Begging for a rare to medium T-Bone. Learn More
- Karl’s Scepter Barossa Valley Shiraz 2022Special Price $30.00 Regular Price $38.00A rich and satisfying, full bodied Barossa Shiraz offering generous and intense dark fruits, chocolate, vanilla, cherries, plum and spice. Cedary oak is evident too. Ask us about mates rates on this one! Learn More
- Karl’s Scepter Shiraz 2022$35.00A step up from the previous vintage, the 22 Scepter Shiraz with bright red fruits, of strawberry and cranberry, with milk chocolate. A lovely mid palate richness leady to a long finish. Learn More
- Lone Palm Vineyards 'Selection' Shiraz 2022$250.00Just 166 and a half dozen were produced of this impenetrably black beast. The best fruit is hand selected from the lowest yielding rows of the winery's best vineyard in Maranaga. Some whole bunch and 100% whole berries are fermented slowly in open fermenters before basket pressing into French Oak. Liquorice, star anise and cloves, dark chocolate, blackberries, blueberries, blackcurrants can all be found here. Fruit intensity and length are profound. Length is exceptional. An utterly brilliant wine. Learn More
- Lone Palm Vineyards Hillside Shiraz 2022$120.00An explosive Barossa Shiraz from low yielding, old vineyards in Marananga and Stonewell, planted to the R6 and 1654 clones. There’s old vine fruit from Greenock, the vines so old that the clonal selection is unknown. Matured in a combination of new French and older American oak, this is a stunning Barossa Shiraz offering dense black fruits, blue fruits, blackberries, coffee, graphite, chocolate, minerals, liquorice, spice, blueberries, cedar and firm tannins. Stunning. Learn More
- Lone Palm Vineyards Old Vine Grenache 2022$60.00Serious, old vines Grenache this- with a degree of intensity you don’t always find in Grenache. As with the incredible first vintage which sold out in just a few months, the 22 is bolstered with the inclusion of some powerful, low yielding, old vine Shiraz. The tannins are plentiful and savoury, the fruits black, flecked with reds and tightly coiled. Needs decanting, Officially awesome! Learn More
- Stonehouse Neldner Vineyard Barossa Valley Icon Shiraz 2022$150.00Better again than the incredible 98 point Neldner which was compared by one wine writer to Penfolds Grange. Handpicked grapes from an 80 year old contoured vineyard in Gomersal. Long slow fermentation including more than 10% whole bunch fruit before basket pressing into 30% new oak inc. both French and American. A stunningly perfumed nose leads to a palate with exceptional structure and richness. Red fruits, black fruits, coffee, cherries, red plum, dark chocolate, spice and fine, powdery tannins to finish. A pinnacle Barossa Shiraz experience. Learn More