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Shaw and Smith Balhannah Shiraz 2022

A$99.00
AvailabilityIn stock
Volume750ml
VarietiesShiraz
Region/CountryAustralia, South Australia , Adelaide Hills
Rating95 points
Description

"Another cool vintage with a very late harvest. A bouquet of lavender, Swiss mushroom and boysenberry. There is super concentration, not an ounce has been left behind in the vineyard. Supremely dense and compact the wine delivers from the moment you pick up the glass to the long minutes after you’ve put it back down. If you are looking for pound for pound quality and detail, this is the horse you should back. For those seeking power and finesse this is drinking well now but for those willing to seek the reaches far beyond, this will age glacially and no doubt manifest in its intensity."

– Shanteh Wale, Shaw + Smith Single Vineyard Annual

Ratings
Score95 points
ReviewerJeni Port
Review
Offers a reflection of local terroir with a telling and highly attractive touch of Hills’ acacia, briar, mint and earth snuggling up to ripe black fruits and an array of spices. Runs long across the palate opening up to cedary oak nicely integrated among the fruits, spice and featuring an intriguing marzipan-like savouriness before finishing with a touch of bright black pepperiness. That peppery feature helps lift what is some seriously concentrated, deep flavour. A wine that really asks for more time in bottle.
Score95 points
ReviewerGary Walsh
Review
There’s a lot going on here, that’s for sure. It’s a mesh of ripe blue and black fruit, grilled meat, pepper and spice, dried herbs and juniper berry, seaweed, and dried flower perfume. It’s medium-bodied, meaty and spicy, sweet fruit but also strewn with aromatic spice and herb, tannin is grainy and silty, and there’s something of an olive tapenade thing, and gentle bitterness of orange peel, almost Negroni-like, and the finish is long with plenty of grip and extract. Very good. As an aside, stylistically this might be called ‘Syrah’, though I like that S+S have stuck to the knitting and kept its Australian name.
Specifications
ClosureScrew Cap
Serving temp14-18 °C
Alcohol14%
Cellar UntilUntil 2038
Food Pairing

Wagyu Steak

Tasting Profile
nose

As always this wine has a unique look that speaks of place and its vintage. A cool year and small yields makes for a wine full of intensity. A complex nose of dried herbs, spice, Kalamata olive brine and smoked meats.

palate

Long and ripe tannins built for aging.

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