Rocksand Shiraz 2022
Weighty Gold-medal Shiraz, not from Oz, but from a top winemaker in Portugal.
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Wine Details
- Inky Black Crimson
- Shiraz-based blend
- 8.295 Units
- 14% ABV
- 750 ml
- 29 June 2026
Flavour Profile
Tasting notes
Rich and fruity with flavours of plum, prune and blackcurrant; spicy
Aroma
Dense blackberry aromas with a hint of vanilla oak
The Wine
One major UK newspaper named Rocksand Shiraz among its ‘12 Best Portuguese Wines’, giving it the title of ‘best for a meat feast’! The secret to its luscious weight and fruit-packed splendour is the sandy soils, which hold little rain for the vines, plus the unrelenting hot sun of the Setúbal Península. The result is a very modest yield of small berries crammed with juicy flavour and spice. No wonder, then, award-winning winemaker Jaime Quendera is now forging a worldwide reputation for Setúbal’s rich, bold reds, all at affordable prices, too. A few months' ageing in French oak barrels has lent a gorgeous, spicy, vanilla lift to its wealth of ripe black fruits. A fine, Gold-medal treat to serve with spicy chorizo sausages, a hearty stew or the Sunday roast.
One major UK newspaper named Rocksand Shiraz among its ‘12 Best Portuguese Wines’, giving it the title of ‘best for a meat feast’! The secret to its luscious weight and fruit-packed splendour is the sandy soils, which hold little rain for the vines, plus the unrelenting hot sun of the Setúbal Península. The result is a very modest yield of small berries crammed with juicy flavour and spice. No wonder, then, award-winning winemaker Jaime Quendera is now forging a worldwide reputation for Setúbal’s rich, bold reds, all at affordable prices, too. A few months' ageing in French oak barrels has lent a gorgeous, spicy, vanilla lift to its wealth of ripe black fruits. A fine, Gold-medal treat to serve with spicy chorizo sausages, a hearty stew or the Sunday roast.
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