I tasted this wine at a promotion recently. The wine, the younger brother of the flagship Meshach Shiraz, comes from the same Filsell vineyard, which was planted in 1920. One of the finest vineyards of the Barossa, it produces fruit of great intensity and concentration. The fruit is crushed and fermented separately in temperature controlled tanks with pumping over for about a week or so, before a final fermentation in oak. The final assemblage is matured in a mix of new and 2 year old American oak barrels (with a small amount in French oak hogshead) for 20 months before bottling.
As for this wine, it was a deep purple ruby with a woody berr nose. The palate was sweet and rich with berry and woody notes and a slight salty tang. A good acid tannic backbone give good support.
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