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WINE OF THE WEEK: Wave Crest Mount Benson Shiraz 2022, Mount Benson, Australia

£9.99, Majestic

A bottle of Australian red wine

Pure, fresh, cool-climate Aussie Shiraz with enticing raspberry and white pepper overlaying hints of herbs and soft, sleek tannins. It’s no featherweight, but it’s a million miles from the classic, big, rich, Barossa style.


To me, it doesn't bear any real resemblance to the southern Rhône’s Gigondas either, but that’s the wine Wave Crest compares it to, so I pass it on.


Mount Benson is a relatively new, coastal wine region within South Australia’s Limestone Coast wine zone about three and half hours' drive south of Adelaide and an hour and half west of Coonawarra.


It's an area of rolling hills and farmland with just a smattering of vineyards taking advantage of the Mediterranean climate and the maritime influences from winds blowing in off the Southern Ocean.


Wave Crest is a label of Norfolk Rise, a single estate – the Mount Benson Estate – and a relative newcomer, planting its first vines in 2000. It’s now the region’s largest producer, with 140 hectares of certified sustainable vineyard and, since 2021, new owners, the McBride family, two generations of whom are involved. 2022 is the first vintage under their ownership. They should be pleased with this Shiraz.


It would be a welcome bottle at a barbecue, easily taking on a rare steak or magret de canard or a leg of lamb strewn with rosemary and garlic, but it doesn’t demand heavy or meaty food. It would be happy with vegetable skewers, baba ganoush and other aubergine dishes, spiced roast butternut squash and root veg, or a roast chicken. 14%.

Wave Crest Mount Benson Shiraz 2022, Mount Benson, Australia


£9.99 in any 6-bottle mix, £11.99 singly, Majestic


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