MOUNT PLEASANT OLD PADDOCK & OLD HILL SHIRAZ 2022

Style: Savoury & Detailed

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The Mount Pleasant winery is my special subject. It was the home of Australia¿s first great winemaker ¿ Maurice O¿Shea ¿ and until the early 1960s it was known as the producer of Australia¿s best table wines. CAMPBELL MATTISON

All the 1880 Old Hill went into this wine in 2022. 20% new French oak. It's labelled O.P. & O.H. again, though some years it was Old Paddock and Old Hill, which kind of makes the search function a bit of a nightmare, so I've added all the words.  Iodine, quite umami, porcini mushroom, dark fruit and liquorice, a little spicy biscuit and cedar oak in tow. Medium-bodied, dark fruit and spice, earth and dark chocolate, tannin has grip and fleshiness, a little rugged maybe, but sits well within the wine, and the finish is pretty deep and earthy, with some boysenberry freshness to close. Quite savoury, but kind of typical OP & OH in that way. GARY WALSH, The Wine Front

Region: Hunter Valley, NEW SOUTH WALES

Variety: Shiraz

ABV: 14%

Liquor Act 2007. It is against the law to sell or supply alcohol to, or to obtain alcohol on behalf of a person under the age of 18 years. Lic No. LIQP770016424

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