Mount Pleasant Maurice O’Shea Shiraz 2014

‘Arguably, one of the greatest red vintages in living memory’, says Mount Pleasant. The flagship wine. Destemmed and crushed, short cold soak, open-fermented, matured in large format French oak (30% new) for 18 months. Has the gently throbbing power of a Rolls Royce; superb, deep crimson-purple hue, itself rare in the Hunter Valley. Countless layers of black fruits have absorbed the oak and put the undoubted tannins into limbo land. O’Shea would have died a happy man had this been his last wine. Dissecting it now is an academic exercise at best, so great is its future. This is as close to a 100-year potential as you are ever likely to find. Drink by: 2064. Special Value. A winner of the 2017 Halliday Wine Companion Best Shiraz of the Year. Score – 99. (James Halliday, winecompanion.com.au, June 30, 2021)