(2022) From high vineyards in the Eden Valley at 480-500 metres, and just 50 kilometres from the coast. Soils are shallow rock with red clay, quartz and ironstone. These are very old vines at 80 years, and 20% whole bunches were feremented with wild yeasts, the wine aged 15 months in French oak, 30% new. Back to the deepest and vibrant colour, this misses the full-on old-Barossa character of the Thorne-Clarke, but adds a dimension of real elegance, intensity and smoothness, with a beautiful fruit quality. The palate is perhaps the most savoury of the examples so far, quite meaty-stocky and dense, chewy tannins but very good balance in the end giving a gravelly intensity. No UK retail stockists at time of review. Imported by Amathus Drinks.