2010 Paringa Estate Shiraz

Medium garnet in color, the 2010 Estate Shiraz presents a complex, cooler climate nose with some dried flavors fused with Szechuan pepper and baking spice notes and wrapped around a core of black raspberries and kirsch. Hints of licorice lace the palate with tons of fruit and a solid backbone before finishing long and peppery.|||Paringa Estate in the Mornington Peninsula bears no relation whatsoever to the Paringa label used in South Australia apart from sharing similar names. This vineyard and winery was established in the Red Hill subregion of Mornington Peninsula in 1985 by Lyndsay McCall. A school teacher with a calling to make high-quality wine in the then largely untapped Mornington region, Lyndsay had no formal winemaking training. Yet his ingenuity, creativity and drive allowed him to develop individual viticultural techniques (particularly his adapted Lyre trellis) that bring out the best from his unique site and clones. The style of the Chardonnays has gone finer and more elegant in recent years. They are now fermented on full solids and little or no malolactic is employed with the notable exception of the 2012 WB Chardonnay, in which case the glorious results justify the means! eRobertParker.com.February, 2015