Chapel Hill, The Vinedresser Shiraz, McLaren Vale

Goes pretty well. Black fruit, jelly beans, milk chocolate, blackened bits of a grilled steak. Fleshy tannin and decent length.

Qantas Business Class - Ground & Air; 10/3/2023-10/6/2023 (Sydney, Antique aircraft, Bangkok) : {screwcap} Blueberries, chocolate, liquorice. Plummy richness. It’s fruit, not oak on the nose, but some oak does emerge on the medium-weight palate to meet plenty of sweet blackberry flavours. But the tannins are low impact, finely gritty ones, and there’s not a lot of acidity. The short/medium length finish seems mostly carried by alcoholic warmth. These are $25 reds, so I guess you can’t expect too much. …