Shadowfax Shiraz 2010

You don’t see these Shadowfax wines in retail land much anymore. Given the value on offer with this Shiraz, however, that’s really surprising. It deserves some love.

A blend of Werribee, Heathcote and Tallarook fruit – which means grapes from all over Victoria, really – this manages to balance out sausage meat pepper and wildness with firm dry tannins. It’s just medium weight, yet carries an intensity of briary, quite ripe red fruit that makes for seriously impressive drinking, if just a little drawn out through the finish.

I’d drink this – I like the meatiness and ‘I’m a cool Victorian Shiraz’ style here, the price makes it just a gift.

Drink: 2013-2018
Score: 17.7/20 92/100
Would I buy it? Yes.