2019 GT Block Shiraz, Koomilya, McLaren Vale
Koomilya is Steve Pannell's passion project, and he's making some of the finest wines we've ever seen from McLaren Vale. The 2019 Koomilya GT Shiraz is from a vineyard site Steve has worked with for years with other projects, with silty loam soils. There's power here and grainy, mouth-coating tannins. He makes all the wines in this range in the same way, to showcase the terroir differences. There's 20% whole bunch and all fruit is handpicked, with minimul sulphur use throughout. There's lots of black fruit and spicy notes here, with a lot of structure that stands it in great stead to age in bottle.