Understandably some excitement surrounding the release of this wine. Being awarded James Halliday’s 2021 Wine of the Year is a massive achievement. Tasting the wine, it is easy to see why. A wine of great poise, sharing a pedigree with the celebrated 2014, 1998 and 1986 Graveyard vintages. This is a very, very good Shiraz. Winter and early Spring of 2017 was dry, with only 19mm of rain falling over the months of July to September. This set a low crop but things evened out with 250mm from October to December. There was concern that we were looking down the barrel of a wet harvest but a historically dry and temperate January resulted in a near perfect ripening period. The old vines of Graveyard were harvested in the first week of February in pristine condition. An effortless high quality vintage.