The team had a special treat recording The Adelaide Show Podcast episode 151 with the following 2014 Vinify Shiraz tasting notes arising from a hand-delivered cleanskin by winemaker, Simon Parker.
Our guest for the week, Ben Heard, reached out to Simon on the off chance he would like a wine submitted as the SA Drink Of The Week and this McLaren Vale Shiraz is what materialised.
Simon is a busy winemaker at Vinify, a professionally run small to medium batch wine grape processing operation incorporating a sorting table and a small batch bag press for high-quality grape processing.
It is worth noting this wine is available at the moment for just $120 a dozen. Contact Vinify direct for details.
2014 Vinify Shiraz tasting notes
This particular wine is made from McLaren Vale grapes sourced from six different vineyards.
Some French and American Oak has framed and given refined structure to this wine., which is very balanced and
Steve noted he was expecting a big, bright, fruit-dripping wine when he heard ‘McLaren Vale Shiraz, but this wine has more formal presentation nicely tilted toward the food-wine pairing end of the spectrum, rather than the meal-in-itself end.
Steve also noted that just as the wine begins departing from the palate, there is note of red raspberry liquorice that quickly emerges from the background and whips the taste buds.
Ben concurred, saying Simon had said to expect some red and black berries on the palate.
You can hear the live tasting and discussion about four minutes in.
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