2022 Treadlie Shiraz
2022 Treadlie Shiraz
Our sixth version of this wine. As always we are chasing a fresh fruit-driven easy drinking style. Shiraz in it’s youth can have quite an “edgy” tannin structure, so we kept the skin contact time to just 5 days during fermentation. The addition of Bastardo gives this unique blend lift and pop, but also helps to soften the finish too.
TASTES LIKE Sweet plum and black fruits. A touch of roasted nuts and graphite.
DRINK WITH Smoked Brisket or Pasta with portobello mushroom sauce
Vegan friendly
CAMPBELL MATTINSON WINE FRONT: We get both freshness and flavour here, all within a 12.6% alcohol package. Boysenberry, black cherry and iodine characters comes laced with raw (low level) cedar, sweet spice and earth. It all chugs along nicely, a kind of grainy, grippy aspect giving your palate something to hold onto. Nice one. 90 Points.
MARCUS ELLIS HALLIDAY: This is made without oak and is taken off skins swiftly to make an approachable style of shiraz. That said, and with lower alcohol, there’s still plenty of flavour punch, with comfortably dark fruits allied with bright, red-berried ones, some anise-like spice, mulchy forest floor, scrubby herbs and a tapenade saline thing carrying across the palate. It’s bright but deceptively complex, and a wine of character. 91 Points