Terre à Terre Crayères Vineyard Reserve 2020
Author: OZ Wine Review
It’s been a day or so of big dog reds at Australian Wine and Drinks Review, and today’s wine comes from Xavier Bizot & Lucy Croser’s Terre à Terre label. A blend of 78% Cabernet and 22% Shiraz from the close-planted Crayères Vineyard in Wrattonbully. Even now, at five, it’s still a molten, tightly wrapped bold red wine, cloaked in oak flavours and oak tannins (it spends 14 months in new wood, and it shows). After a swirl, not much comes out – some coffeed oak is the first flavour, then lavish oak, then oak tannins, plush fruit, coffee, and dark spirit. But you reach deep into this and it feels limitless, in a modern Right Bank Bordeaux superstar mode, but the finish is limitless. I can’t say it’s a good drink now, but the score reflects the endless future.
Best drinking: wait a decade
