lion’s roar of the barossa

lion’s roar of the barossa

PRODUCT FROM AUSTRALIA

Colour Black, dark-purple intensity. Nose Eucalypt and vineyard track dust aromatics leap up before the more rounded, judicious French Oak bouquet brings a neat balance. Hints of black olives, spice, bay leaf, soy, musk and pastrami make for an exotic, enticing mix. Palate Big, round, furry tannins envelop multitudinous clusters of liquorice and ripe blackberry, the plush fruits balancing the necessitous tannic gruffness. There is an intensity and a coolness to the black fruit flavours and textures which, along with background acidity, keeps the wine in parade-ground order - an attitude which cabernet both needs and likes. This is a big mouthful of red wine, yet it finishes very dry and lingeringly, never losing its cabernet definition. Friendly, satisfying yet upright and mannered. Drink Decant twice or open the morning before dinner, as voluminous cabernet’s invariably demand. Being a brooding yet inviting red wine, nothing sings a duet with it better than a homemade pork sausage. Add some truffled mash potato, and a few roasted vegetables, or even ratatouille - if you are prepared to abandon all etiquette and serve a Provencal dish with a Bordelais grape variety… This, I’m afraid, is the world we live in now..