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95
/ 100
Mike Bennie
Red
Classification
Shiraz
Variety
2020
Vintage
750ml (Bottle)
Bottle Size
Australia
Country
South Australia, Barossa Valley
Region
14.5%
Alcohol %
15 Plus Years
Cellaring
Scores
95 / 100"Dero is a wine that comes in a brown paper bag, but that is also the label, glued onto a squat, brown glass bottle. Appropriate, per se. The fruit was sourced from Gumtree ads, ‘wanted’ notes on notice boards and ‘asking people in the street who I would strike up a conversation with’. In the end, Dero came from a Hoffmann vineyard in Ebenezer, Steinert in High Eden, Nathan Burley’s spot in Flaxman Valley, the Kolovic Family vineyard in Lyndoch and Ted McWatters Williamstown site. Kudos. Sum of parts stuff, shades of Sami-Odi (and indeed reminiscent in the glass) with parcels that were picked between 11 and 15 Baume, but evening out to 13.8%. Inky, dark fruited, rich and spicy red. Scents of ripe forest berries, pipe tobacco, charcuterie, forest floor, walnut and wood polish. Flavours are dark fruited too, very spicy, a bit of boot polish and resin to taste, but fits the bill nicely and comes away dense but medium weight and with a web of fine, chocolatey tannins with a trail of breathy fruit and pulverised rock minerally feel lingering. Fine and fresh, lifted, an old school feel but a vitality to the wine. An absolute ripper – nailed it."
- Mike Bennie
Tasting Notes
From de-stemming open fermentation, long periods of skin contact, partial whole bunch fermentation to long slow Carbonic fermentations. The wine was then put into Barriques to rest in our cool cellar for around 17 months and was blended on the first day of Spring 2021.
The wine displays typical Barossa richness while maintaining elegance and layered complexity!
Tasting Profile
- Light
- Full
- Low Tannin
- Tannic
- Sweet
- Dry
- Low Acidity
- High Acidity