$34.00
Benchmark MR Shiraz. Wonderfully elegant and balanced. Indeed I think this comfortably sits aside Scorpo and Paringa as a top 3 Mornington Peninsula Shiraz. The winery website is well worth checking out and in particularly the terrior-geek and Burgundian-like focus on subplots and soil types is impressive. The 2018 Syrah is sourced from sub-blocks 2 and 3.
In addition to the Shiraz the vineyard has 10 clones of pinot noir, 7 clones of chardonnay and 32 different sub-blocks based on aspect and soil-type differences. At harvest, each individual parcel is handled separately and typically, there will be 50 different parcels at the end of vintage. Detailed focus much?
"It takes a microsecond for the wine to establish this part of the Mornington Peninsula to deliver full-bodied shiraz that hasn't been over-extracted or otherwise forced to provide its layered purple and black fruits. The oak and tannin contributions have been calculated with the usual attention to detail." 96pts - James Halliday - Wine Companion