2019 The Pawn Shiraz

AROMA: The wine is intensely aromatic with a bouquet of wild red berries and black pepper along with cinnamon and plums. PALATE: The palate is rich, displaying fruits such as blackberry and cherry complementing the spicy backbone of liquorice and chocolate. A hint of savouriness gives the wine an extra layer of complexity with good tight acidity and smooth velvety tannins.

This, my third Shiraz under the El Desperado Range is a blend of grapes from both our Adelaide Hills and Langhorne Creek vineyards,and with warm days and cool nights, it provides ideal growing conditions for this varietal. I have taken the finest characteristics of each, and hand-crafted a full bodied wine that can be both a drink now style or cellar nicely for the medium term. As the crow flies its only 20 kms between these blocks, but the Hills fruit brings lifted raspberry, cola and pomegranate, with a bright balanced acidity on the palate, while the Creek fruit infuses a generous earthiness with ripe plum and blackcurrant's and the quotidian soft, long tannins.