LIONHEART OF THE BAROSSA SHIRAZ, Dandelion Vineyards 2021

£16.55

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Intense crimson with youthful purple hues. Lifted blue fruits, blood plum, ripe blackberries and Christmas pudding-like spice flow out of the glass with spicy pepper, and hints of bramble and dark chocolate. Generous mouth filling sweet blackberry, raspberry and plums cover the palate with lashings of sweet spice. Firm but fine tannins and dark chocolaty nuances continue throughout the lengthy palate with a youthful finish.

Dandelion Vineyards is the new venture of typist Zar Brooks, his winemaking wife Elena and growers Carl Lindner and Brad Rey, with wines made from the Barossa, Eden Valley, Fleurieu, and McLaren Vale.    Nick Stock, one of Australia’s leading journalists, has described Dandelion as follows: “Brooks has teamed up with his winemaking wife Elena, a woman whose talents are outweighed only by her tolerance, in an exciting new venture called Dandelion Vineyards. The approach is remarkably simple and sees Elena making wine from a suite of beautiful old vineyards identified by Carl Lindner and Brad Rey across that blessed curve that runs from the Barossa, up through the Eden Valley and Adelaide Hills and down into McLaren Vale.”   Using well established single vineyards that are producing the classic varietals of each region, (eg. Riesling is from a 99 year old site in the Eden Valley) Dandelion is smartly packaged range, that overdelivers on quality and value.