Dormilona Clayface Shiraz 2023

Dormilona Clayface Shiraz is a Margaret River Shiraz made start to finish in amphora.

Shiraz was a late arrival to the Clayface family, taken from the plot Jo and Jim farm themselves at Yungarra. Fruit picked by hand is gently crushed into a large clay pot, where it ferments on skins for three weeks, then pressed off and returned to the same vessel for three months' maturation before being bottled by hand straight from the pot. Margaret River Shiraz is often the region's overlooked red, sitting in Cabernet's shadow, and treated like this, with no oak, no filtration and nothing added, it reads leaner and more peppery than the warm-climate version most people picture.

Aromatically it is all pepper, violets and dark berry, with a lightly meaty savouriness and soft, powdery tannin. Serve at 15 to 16 degrees, or lightly chilled. Lamb kofta, grilled mushrooms, a peppered steak, or sausages with mustard.

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