KOOMILYA 21 JC BLOCK SHIRAZ

KOOMILYA 21 JC BLOCK SHIRAZ

$125.00
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Variety

Shiraz

Vintage

2021

Size

750ml

Country

Australia

State

South Australia

Region

McLaren Vale

Description

Native ferment with 16 days on skins; maturation in a 2300L oak vat. There really are no other wines that taste like the Koomilya shiraz triad, being utterly individual and beguiling wines of place. This, my pick of the vintage. The three block wines are kindred but aptly singular, this with some of the succulence and girth of the DC and the relative levity of the GT, bound with more spice and intense compression than either. Deep, brooding, almost bottomless, but it’s no cudgel. Dusky red fruits and florals, a deep red cherry scent, blood and iron, licorice, tar, turned humus-rich soil, dried hardy herbs, and an invigorating sour-fruit-flavoured twang escorting the supple fruit with sublimely fine, grapey tannins. It’s one heck of a wine. 98 Points – Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion

Blackcurrant and blackberry coulis, aniseed, subtle gum leaf perfume, along with floral top notes, chamomile tea perhaps, dark chocolate and spice. It’s full bodied, but fresh, and it’s a little brighter and more vibrant in nature than the brooding DC, the tannin is rich and ferrous and melts in the mouth like high quality dark chocolate, and there’s an almost pippy cranberry crunch to acidity, and the finish is so long and beautifully textured. Wow. What a wine. 97 Points - Gary Walsh, The Wine Front