Dalwhinnie Moonambel Shiraz 2005 Variety_Tequila enhancing texture and depth without

enhancing texture and depth without overwhelming the spirit

each enriched with a perpetual reserve

a truly exceptional wine

indigenous fermentations and a year on lees in demi-muids

It also drinks happily on its own

Dalwhinnie Moonambel Shiraz 2005 Variety_Tequila enhancing texture and depth withoutThe 2005 Moonambel Shiraz is riper than either wine tasted either side of it (2002 and 2017), and it leads with milk chocolate, plush succulent red and purple fruit, scraped vanilla pod (perhaps the oak?) and lashings of fruit. This is a deeply delicious wine, although I would suggest that the slightly higher alcohol masks some of the more nuanced characters that I saw in some of the earlier vintages. However, what it misses there, it absolutely gains