Curtis Family Vineyards Gladiator Shiraz 2021

Curtis Family Vineyards Gladiator Shiraz 2021
$228, 14.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, McLaren Vale.

The grapes for this wine were hand picked from shiraz vines that have been growing in the McLaren Vale wine regions for over 80 years. There’s plenty of blood and there’s plenty of thunder, but this wine also has a sense of craft to it. It feels hand stitched. It tastes of ripe plums, peppermint, choc-cream and sweet spices, the latter toasty and tending towards red earth notes. But it all presents as one melted whole; luxurious, plentiful and shaped to perfection. There’s such harmony here that you could indeed drink this right now. 94 points.