Cobaw Ridge Winery - Lagrein - 2022

Biodynamic farmed to nth degree. Visionary stuff. From a cool year, there was only 400 kg harvested and it was picked mid May. A portion was bleeded off and the rest spent three weeks on skins. My tasting companion just said “lock the door, close the blinds, turn off your phone and just enjoy this bottle of wine. A perfect recipe for that”. Amen. Lots of cassis and black jellybean, alpine herbs, a bit of higher toned violet floral notes, Chinese five spice too. Beautiful perfume. Sink in deep. The palate is sinewy and refreshing, succulent and fine boned, superb tannin flex that’s so Italianate, and shows so much detail in dark fruits, that pretty, floral herbal lift, maraschino cherry, blood orange and amaro. Wow. This is bloody fantastic. So much character, so much deliciousness, so much drinkability, so much to savour. Got better and better with air. A twenty minute wine, if you get my drift, but resist if you can. Stellar. 96 Points Mike Bennie, Wine Front