2014 Tyrrell's Vat 9 Shiraz

Expert review

Medium purple with a bloody core and a highly aromatic and complex nose of lavender, rose, cracked pepper, dark blue and red fruit, cured meat, savoury spice, cedar, plenty of tar and a mineral edge that lays underneath it all. In the mouth it’s generously medium bodied, complex, spicy and evocative with an intensity that captures you. Concentrated flavours of plum, black/blue fruit, dark cherry, brûléed Demerara sugar and baking spice show in layers, reaching with depth and width. A fine spread of firm, prickly tannins grip with texture and tension, teasing the palate in a playful way, while a beam of confident berry acidity illuminates the fruit and gives good drive. It’s long, powerful with intensity and seems to crescendo with time. This is bloody good drinking, and even with 8 years of cellar time, it’s still a baby. Wonderful.

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