Schild Estate

Select parcels from three vineyards, the wine is deeply pigmented and dense with youthful aromas of blackberry, wild raspberry and mulberry. Crushed black peppercorn, bay leaf and woody rosemary stem. Velvety tannins and crunchy red berried acidity with dark chocolate, black cherry and clove studs. It’s really coming into its own, this wine was carefully cellared and released later for good reason. Concentrated and flavourful, it drinks now or will cellar for another 5 years. This is calling for beef and Guinness pie.

This is a dense, ripe Shiraz with oodles of black cherries and blackberries, chocolatey, cola-like oak and flecks of black olives and dusty Aussie earth. The palate is as rich as the nose suggests, filling the mouth with plush dark berries, a prominent line of oak and dusty tannins, and a little alcohol heat.