With a deep garnet purple color, the 2010 The Little Venice Single Vineyard Shiraz offers a fruit-forward nose of ripe black cherry and blueberry notes intermingled with baking spices, star anise and chocolate box aromas. This medium to full-bodied wine is well-poised in the mouth, has a medium to firm level of rounded tannins and lively acid that gives a backbone to the expressive fruit, and has great persistence on the finish. It is approachable now and will drink to 2023+. Importer: Old Bridge Cellars, Napa, CA, www.oldbridgecellars.com

Firm in texture, showing tightly wound tea leaf-accented blackberry and dusky spice flavors coming together on the expressive finish, with crunchy tannins. Needs cellaring. Best after 2015. 300 cases made, 25 cases imported.??–HS??Region: Australia / McLaren Vale Select to Add