The Kangarilla Road is a pretty straight up standard for the region, a nose heavy on fruit with hints of spices, and a big mouthful of flavours. Dark berry fruits, currants, even a hint of beetroot, all with a nice earthiness. Finished roundly with fine oak and elegant tannins, and it’s here that this one stands out. I'm getting stuck into this at every opportunity, which includes right now, but given a few more years to settle down and evolve this will go from being excellent to being just bloody spectacular.

It’s the climatic diversity (the weather has a bit of a multiple personality thing going on) of McLaren Vale that has created it’s varied range of meso and micro climates, allowing for the region to grow, and become known for, a wide range of grapes from Tempranillo to Zinfandel. But it is still the Shiraz (and the cab sauv but that’s not the focus here) who reigns supreme.