Deep, youthful violet. Expansive, spice accented black and blue fruit and floral scents, along with hints of vanilla and cola. In a plush, forward style, offering appealingly jammy cherry and boysenberry flavors that show good depth as well as energy. Smooth, slowly building tannins add shape to the long supple finish, which strongly echoes the blue fruit note.

Delivers a dense, dusty mouthful of wild blackberry, plum and cassis flavors, with oolong tea, blueberry preserves and flecks of salted caramel, dried herbs and loam that linger on the finish, where the tannins further clamp down. Drink now. 2,000 cases made, 1,500 cases imported.

The 2019 Red Silk Shiraz is extremely tannic but blessed of a concentrated, brooding core of black fruit. Uncomplicated drinking-plenty of fruit.