2022 Standish The Relic Shiraz Viognier

There is a considered 1% of viognier in this wine. It was wonderful to run through
barrels with Dan Standish earlier this year, a matrix of information about the wines
and how detailed the final wines are from the barrels considered.
Rich and robust red albeit with a thread of coursing minerality, frisky, floral perfume
(and mouth perfume), varied red and black berry fruits, turned earth, game meat,
woody spices, faint minty-alpine herb notes. So very much going. Slippery and
slurpy, cinched with fine, grainy tannins, a faint sooty spice element to that but feels
mostly skinsy and tight by virtue of pure, deep grapiness.
A throaty, rich, somewhat warm red with impeccable credentials and great balance.
Regal in its stance. -95+ Points Mike Bennie – the Winefront.