YANGARRA ESTATE Ironheart Shiraz 2020

Robert Parker Score: 95 points

Reviewer: Erin Larkin — August 2023 Week 424 Aug 2023

Drink 2023–2040

The 2020 Ironheart Shiraz hails from a warm, dry vintage in McLaren Vale, and the wines, I feel, have been made with care and detail. They're very good, and while the season is still captured in the glass, there's no hint of the heat or the year. This might be due to the resilience of the organic/biodynamic vineyard. Anyway, here the wine is monumental, big, supple and driven by skin tannin, but it's a bit meaty and dense too. There are muscles here, but it's not heavy, you know? It's really engaging and lively, while nailing the McLaren Vale Shiraz brief of exotic spice, dark fruit and fine tannin. This is a pleasure. It matured for only 12 months in one year old French foudre and then spentA further trip around the sun in glass prior to release. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.