Yelland & Papps Single Vineyard Greenock Shiraz 2023

Yelland & Papps Single Vineyard Greenock Shiraz 2023
$53, 13.6% alcohol, screw cap, Barossa Valley.

The 2023 season was both cool and late by modern Barossa Valley standards, the red grapes on average picked two weeks later than the historically cool 2002 vintage, for instance. The season translates here into an elegant-but-well-fruited wine with juicy blue- and black-berried flavours woven through with twigs, spice, woodsmoke and graphite. There’s a floral prettiness evident both on the nose and in the mouth, which is part of why this wine comes across as so more-ish, though the ripe sweetness of the fruit is a key element too. That said, there’s a decent churn of grainy tannin here, so that in the end this wine feels firm and commanding. 93 points.