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2012 Greenock Creek Roennfeldt Road Shiraz

Barossa Valley, South Australia, AUSTRALIA
$299. 00
Bottle
$3588.00 Dozen
ABV: 15%
Closure: Cork

Other Reviews…..
Another very frank lesson in fashion: The resinous Quercus alba wood is not so sharply sappy this year as in some Roennfeldt Shiraz but it's still very bourbon in style. Which makes this the sort of full-bore '80s and '90s fashion topprice Barossa Shiraz that came from a certain company then under the winemaking husbandry of the great Messrs. Ditter and Duval. It's a bit like Gerard Depardieu's mad pirouetting swordfighting Cyrano de Bergerac crossed with the 120 kg boy with freckles and bib overalls who lives down there in the swamp and when his mighty paw crushes yours in a handshake he leans down and murmers "The name's Bubba" right in your ear and you smell fresh bourbon and feel suddenly safe. Drinking it is a much less confronting adventure: it's slick and snaky in a luxurious velvet-then-silk manner and could well eventually pour comfortably with what? Say the best Shiraz of the great comet vintage, 1986? Perhaps the best Roennfeldt's Shiraz yet? We may know in 20 years. In the meantime, you couldn't get much more of a contrast than the faultline between the tectonic plates of 2012 and 2015.
Phillip White – Greenock Creek Newsletter