THESE cold winters nights are only good for one thing, okay maybe two, but the most enjoyable is lighting the fire, cooking up a warming beef casserole and getting stuck into drinking a bottle of good red wine.
This wine was re-released last year under the Lindemans Classic Release program and, while it may be hard to find, it is worth letting your fingers do the walking and tracking down a bottle to gush over. It has a list of gold medals that the American track team can’t get close to winning and more spunk than a blonde Australian pole vaulter.
Tasting Note
Decant before drinking
The colour is showing develop-ment, red brick hue.
The aromas are still powerful, with a treat of coconut, tobacco, leather and sweet sweaty bramble and blackcurrant pastels. It is one of those wines you just play with in the glass and are not in a rush to get down the hatch. But when the hatch is open, you are engulfed with a sensational seductive mouth-feel that has masses of fruit swimming around – blackcurrants and cassias are but two of the delights.
The wine has length, finesse and seamless integration and will have your complete attention right through until the last drop.
A bit of technical information for you: the wine changes its blend according to the vintage. This wine was blended from 83 per cent Coonawarra shiraz and 17 per cent Coonawarra cabernet sauvignon, after spending 12 months in new American oak 300-litre hogsheads.
