Yangarra’s McLaren Vale Shiraz releases just keep getting better and better. This Yangarra Ironheart Shiraz 2020 is the top Shiraz cuvee and includes 20% whole bunches and matured for 16 months in a one-year-old foudre (TA 5.4g/L pH 3.67 if you’re number-watching).

Purple red and so vital. How do they get such generosity at 13.5%? Also, how much does biodynamic viticulture play in achieving such flavour at lower alcohols? Cullen enjoys the same advantage. Background coffee oak and violets on the nose but it remains a wine of fruit, with this grainy plummy open palate of such generosity without warmth. There is this iodine/savoury line here too. Is it that much better than the fantastic (and cheaper) Kings Wood? That’s the only question. Still a fantastic wine.

Best drinking: now and for decades. 18.7/20, 95/100. 13.5%, $125. Yangarra website. Would I buy it? I really would. It’s just so good.