2023 Standish The Relic Shiraz - Viognier 750ml

The 2023 The Relic Shiraz-Viognier is made with fruit from the Hongell family vineyard, Krondorf. It was made with 1% Viognier co-fermented, with 25% whole bunches in the ferment this year, up from 15% to 20%. The Relic is one of Australia’s greatest Shiraz Viognier wines, and it’s a sure thing each year for quality and execution of style.  The winemaking remains consistent across the range: handpicked, wild fermented in open-top fermenters and matured in French oak (the same four coopers on rotation—the aim is to the let the vineyards express through the oak rather than an exposé of cooper over vineyard) for 18-22 months, depending on the attributes of the season; although this yearmaker Dan Standish "pulled some of the more aromatic parcels out of oak and egg a little earlier and put them in tank to protect the freshness of the year." Drinking Window: 2024-2052