Welcome to the new super premium ‘Texture Series’ addition to the Paisley range. These are single vineyard wines designed to highlight separate Barossan parishes, with this red from a 45 year old vineyard in Ebenezer.
From the start, I need to acknowledge that this style wouldn’t be my first choice of drink – the weight and alcohol alone make this more a wine to admire than empty bottles of over dinner. But I also know this style has a place, and the lusciousness is quite remarkable. What Derek from Paisley does so well is to balance out the hedonistic (and very ripe) concentrated Paisley house style with a certain silkiness. These are luscious wines, and proudly so.
This Ebenezer release is the least obvious Texture wine, but still thick with a mulberry and dark earth generosity – definitely a coffeed red ferrous edge. Has a long purple palate that is really quite evocative – unlike the other wines, the alcohol hits like a late sweetness – like a whisky – rather than a heaviness. Yes, it’s a warm wine, but I admire the flavour density with these cascading chocolatey licoricey layers.
- Best drinking: nowish. Why wait?
- Score (out of 20): 18
- Score (out of 100): 93
- Alcohol %: 15
- RRP (in $AUD): 90
- Winery website: https://www.paisleywines.com.au/
- Would I buy it?: A glass
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