95 Points | Gold Medal - 2022 Melbourne Royal Wine Awards
Over the past decade, The Lane Vineyard has built an excellent reputation for producing some of the finest wines in South Australia's Adelaide Hills wine region. With a focus on delivering approachable examples of the region's hero wine varietals, their wines are brimming with flavour and loads of varietal character.
Awarded a Gold Medal (95 Points) at the 2022 Melbourne Royal Wine Awards, this 2021 The Lane Shiraz is a super example of Adelaide Hills Shiraz. Beautifully perfumed and approachable, the palate is intensely flavoured with red fruit and dark chocolate flavours and spice, all sitting on a delicious, medium-bodied palate. An ultra impressive cool-climate Shiraz that offers brilliant value drinking at this discounted price (RRP $30).
"94 Points. Sourced from The Lane estate vineyard east of Hahndorf, a range of blocks and clones, whole berries co-fermented with a dash of Viognier. The styling has excellent estate form, much loved in a previous guise known as Block 5 Shiraz, and now carrying on its storyline with a genuine prettiness in the aromas – thanks in part to the Viognier, but also a cooler climate expression teased here from Hills Shiraz. Florals abound, articulated in a violet note, with weaves of pepper and crunchy black berry fruit, juicy, lively, medium bodied and energetic, with just the faintest of pleasing gastronomic bitters in the finish. A very smart, modern Australian Shiraz. $30. Drink: 2024 - 2030"- Tony Love, winepilot.com.
