Teusner The Riebke Shiraz 2012

Barossa Shiraz at its worst can be cumbersome but at its best combines amazing richness with layers of structure and complexity. This wine shows a lot of the latter with intense ripe blackberry, cassis, dried black plum, cocoa and blueberry aromas without going jammy. The palate is predictably full but there is good, crisp balancing acidity, more of the blue and black fruits of the nose and also spice, cedar, leather, earth, dried fig and orange zest to add interest. Score - 90. (Rhys Pender, MW, winealign.com, March 18, 2014)