Vat 9 Shiraz, Tyrrell's 2018Vintage 2018 Size 75cl ABV 13. 5% Tasting Note Vat 9 is a blend of the best of Tyrell's old blocks that sit on the strip of red soil that runs through the winery. The 2018 vintage, one of the earliest Shiraz harvests seen, was simply spectacular for Shiraz in the Hunter Valley. Warm, dry conditions kept cropping levels down, producing wines of great concentration and length of flavour. Intense purple in colour, the wine displays a pretty, red berry

Ageing in the cellars for 5 years enhances complexity and helps the wine to flourish

reminiscent of the flowers of the vine in June

Golden yellow

This has a really more-ish acidity with a bitter cherry attack crying out for fatty carpaccio

Viña Requingua

Straw yellow

Weingut Horst Sauer is named after its owner

The finish is complex

All fruit is organic

Bottled in a run of 794 bottles

blackberry

An extraordinary barrel-fermented wine from ancient