Winemakers comments:

The year was good, and it produced beautiful grapes that had fullness, structure and character without being overblown. That’s the nature of the wine they produced.

This Shiraz has a deep colour, like black cherries with garnet lights, and it has a wonderful nose – suggestions of plums, blackberries, pepper, spices.

On the palate, it’s very rich and mouth-filling, with the flavours of juicy plums, ripe blackberries, spices, and pepper predominating. There are some savoury notes, too, some suggestions of the wild herbs that grow in summer in Provence, of that sun-dried undergrowth. Those characters give it greater complexity, and add a rustic note. It’s a generous wine.

It has lots of fine close-textured tannins that give it structure.

We think it’s everything we want from a Shiraz.

Don’t hurry drinking it. This is a wine to savour, since it opens up in the glass so well. Enjoy it with a range of dishes. Try it will roast lamb, with tagines, even with French lentil salads.

It will cellar for at least five years.