Lot 356
2021 Barossa Valley Shiraz

$50/bottle under the original label

Plush, lush, opulent, succulent, and hedonistic as all get out, Lot 356 was a no-brainer from the get-go. It comes to us from Bethany Wines, a now sixth-generation winegrowing family whose great, great, great, great great grandfather planted some of the founding vines of the Barossa's back in 1852. To this day, the family controls some of the oldest vines in the country.

Thick and opaque, just a shade off of squid ink, this wine practically oozes from the bottle, however, the bouquet is effusive and lively with redolent plum reduction, mulberry, black pepper, boysenberry syrup, chocolate truffle and seasoned hardwoods adding brown sugar spice and leather notes with air. Plush on entry, seamless across the palate with cherry pie and black raspberry fruit supported by ripe, chewy, chocolatey tannins that stain the palate in an epic finish.