PRICE-DROP: Hollick The Bard Shiraz 2016

This will hit you with unexpected confidence. Coffee bean, raspberry-chocolate, earthy and rich. Ripe and warming, with piles of dark fruit on the palate, but not overworked with too much oak. Sweet-fruited, but its fullness is all about savoury tannins, a confident density borne of equally assured grape-growing and winemaking. Good stuff.