If ever you needed proof that bigger is not better, look no further than the Westlake Eleazar Vineyard in South Australia’s Barossa Valley.
Their flagship Shiraz, the “Eleazar”, sells at around $55 a bottle but is as good a Barossa Shiraz as I’ve tried in the last year. They only produce about 70 cases of this wine a year, but it’s seriously good.
It’s slightly dusty on the nose, but the palate is typically Barossa with generous mouth-filling currants and chocolate but constrained by a French and American oak support structure.
The beauty of the wine is its silky mouth feel and the absence of any flat spots. The secret is out.
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