Plum, violet and chocolate with a hint of musky grape aromas too. Pashmina smoothness. Utter pleasure to taste – the fruit is just so pristine, yet there is spice and earthiness and even a bit of savoury umami flavour too – mushroom and soy, perhaps. Superb. 20%
Drink 2021-2046
This is a ripe and generous wine, with tannins that are well integrated into the powerful black-fruit core. It is rich in a black plum flavor that's cut by fine acidity. Complex, balanced and full of long-term potential, drink this impressive wine from 2029.
Tasted at the busy BFT: dense, closed and tight knit on the nose, ripe sweet and minty on the palate with fine grained gravelly tannins rising in the mouth leading to a firm, linear finished. Not as big or extractive to my mind as recent Sandeman vintages and the 2016 is already showing balance and finesse.
