Powell & Son Barossa Grenache/Shiraz/Mataro 2017
£49.95
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“Vivid ruby. Pungent, spice-accented scents of ripe red and dark berries, cola, potpourri and smoky minerals. Smooth and expansive on the palate, offering juicy cherry-vanilla and boysenberry flavors that are complemented by a hint of peppery spices. Becomes more taut with air and finishes smoky and very long, with building tannins adding shape and grip. Drinking window: 2024-2032. 93 points
After parting ways with Torbreck, the winery that he founded in 1994, David Powell took a brief pause and returned in grand style with his son, Callum, for this project. Readers familiar with the wines that Powell made over the years at Torbreck will no doubt appreciate these extroverted, intensely perfumed and flavored wines, which show the full-throated Barossa style at its best. These wines exhibit almost shockingly fine detail for their mass and power. The thick-staved barrels made by Dominique Laurent are omnipresent here, and they are ideally suited for the extended aging regimen that Powell favors. While the barrel presence in these 2017s is undeniable, so is fruit intensity, which makes me confident that, with patience, the wines are more than capable of absorbing the oak.”
Josh Raynolds, Vinous (12/21)
