2023 Adelina Shiraz Mataro

WINEMAKER: Jennie Gardner & Col McBryde
VARIETY: Shiraz, Mataro
REGION: Clare Valley, S.A.
VITICULTURE: Organic

Hand-picked, fruit is destemmed and mildly crushed, all parcels were picked and fermented separately in concrete, Block 4 - 16 days, Block 7 - 24 days and Block 3 (Mataro) - 31 days. Then off to 700 l French oak, 25% new for 16 months.

"Saltbush, iodine and green olive characters run through plum, earth, leather and orange rind. This is a medium weight wine with integrated-but-assertive tannin, a sheeted impression to the (long) finish, character aplenty and the fruit to match. It’s a wine of momentum but then too it’s a wine of strings and muscle. Truth be told, it’s a fantastic wine, and startling value."
94 Points. Campbell Mattinson, Wine Front.

"A generous perfume and similarly so to taste. Lush, ripe red cherry, raspberry, sweet spice, light milk chocolate notes, a touch of aniseed, faint game meat and some truffle notes. It's easy on the palate in its slick of texture and trill of fine, stony tannin to finish. A little minty, alpine herb in there, too. Very approachable and flavoursome."
93 points. Mike Bennie, Wine Companion.