Geoff Merrill is one of McLaren Vale’s best, and this is a wine that is made only in the greatest of vintages; when after tasting the wines of the year, only the best barrels are chosen to be aged in oak for an additional three years and then laid down to rest. As a result, only a tiny amount of this wine was produced, and we are so lucky to be offering it today. This shiraz is spicy and savoury, with amazing intensity of fruit and well integrated tannin from years just resting in the bottle, ‘polymerising’ aka. getting silky and balanced. Time has also brought all those secondary characters into play, making for a wonderfully layered and deep wine. Awesome length. Very satisfying.