Sons of Eden, Romulus Old Vine Shiraz, Barossa Valley, South Australia, Australia 2019

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Best in Show

Best in Show
Decanter World Wine Awards

Country: Australia
Region: South Australia
Sub-region: Barossa Valley
Grape(s): Shiraz 100%
Producer: Sons of Eden
Alc: 14.5

Sons of Eden, Romulus Old Vine Shiraz, Barossa Valley, South Australia, Australia 2019 Sons of Eden, Romulus Old Vine Shiraz, Barossa Valley, South Australia, Australia 2019

This Barossa wine makes the perfect point of comparison with our Eden Valley Shiraz Best In Show. Both wines are a saturatedly dark, opaque black-red in colour, but in place of the racy, lifted fruits of the Eden Shiraz, this Barossa wine is weightier, sweeter, its fruits confit and pressed, and with notes of oil, camphor and leaf litter lending those fruits an intriguing chiaroscuro. On the palate, it is dense and almost shockingly flavoury, the flavour pattern mimicking the wine's aromatic complexities to compelling effect. Texturally, too, this is a far weightier wine, with splendidly rich, flavour-saturated tannins and an admirably soft, unconfected acid balance. Virtuoso, vanguard Barossa.

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