Burge Family Winemakers Barrel Selection Shiraz 2022
Burge Family Winemakers Barrel Selection Shiraz 2022
$300, 15% alcohol, cork, Barossa Valley.
The 2022 Burge Family Barrel Selection Shiraz is from two premium vineyard sites in the Barossa Valley, with 89% coming from 100 year old vines in Seppeltsfield. The remaining 11% comes from a 40-year-old estate vineyard in Stockwell. The soils on the Seppeltsfield vineyards are primarily red-brown loams over red clay, with scattered ironstone and quartz. The vineyard sits at an altitude of 280-320m above sea level. The Stockwell vineyard also has red loamy soil but predominantly over limestone. The Barrel Selection Shiraz release is taken, as the name suggests, from the best barrels.
The fruit on offer in this wine is gloriously dense and yet fresh; it’s exactly as you would hope to expect of a premium Barossa shiraz. The framework of tannin here is similarly elite; the tannin spreads like a fine-worked web from the mid palate onwards, elevating the quality of the wine in the process. In flavour terms we are straight in chocolate, plums, earth, tobacco and malt, with redcurrant adding brightness. At this early stage of this wine’s life the acidity sits prominent raising a question over how or whether this will settle. If it does, this wine will be magnificent. 92+ points.
