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All the intensely flavoured, clear, bright fruit and depth you’d expect of a top quality Clare Valley red, yet none of the expensive labelling. It’s a ‘Cleanskin’ – the Aussie word for a wine bargain – and this 2017 Shiraz Cab is worth bagging fast.
Tasting notes
Silky with elegant tannins and juicy blackcurrant and blackberry
Aroma
Bright cassis, plum and blackberry aromas
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Two hours’ drive north of Adelaide finds you in the beautiful Clare Valley, source of some of Australia’s finest, pinpoint-fresh Rieslings. Increasingly, Clare’s also gaining a name for pure-fruit Shiraz and Cabernets. With a peerless reputation, and from some of best wineries in Oz, the wines don’t often come cheap. However, with excellent contacts our Buyer Dan is usually first to hear when there’s a parcel needing a home sharpish. At a favourable price, naturally, in return for quick action. Just what we have here – with the 2018 grapes about to land, it was time to clear the cellar. This Shiraz Cabernet blend is dense yet silky with crunchy ripe fruit that’ll soften and mature gracefully, if you can resist drinking it. Ideal with lamb.