Hundred Tree Hill Shiraz 2017

Black as tar in colour, with a ring of Ox blood around the glass. Beef stock, treacle, iron filings, sweaty leather, raw, hung meat, fresh coffee, bush fires, cedar, cigarbox, peppercorns, cooking chocolate, mushroom, blackberries, beetroot, stewed plums, mixed peel and Chinese five spice are all suggested by the intoxicating fumes rising from a very large glass of this wine. The wine swirls onto the palate, creamy, viscous and rich, then explodes mid-palate with freshly curshed raspberry juice, blackberry, juniper and plum. This leads onto gamy, meaty characters and further complexity, followed by the familiar savoury, spicy characters of new American oak. The finish is well structured with fine tannin and the flavours linger long after the wine is finished. Great with rare beef, kangaroo, game meats, hard cheeses or just on its own.