Ironcloud "Rock of Solitude" Mouvedre 2018 (JH 93)

Erin Larkin for James Halliday's Wine Companion 93 points.
Fruit from the Ferguson Valley. Pure and bright with a course of scintillating fruit flavour that trails across the palate. Not overly complex or long, but certainly overly delicious. Gives the mourvèdre earthy tannins that make it such a wonderful variety, and traps within them a core of mulberries straight from the tree in summer.
Erin Larkin
Published 13 August 2021.

colour | Dark red.
nose | Blueberries and liquorice.
palate | A generous palate featuring flavours of blackberry, coffee and cigar flavours, balanced with soft velvety tannins.

winemaking
Mourvedre grapes were machine-harvested and fermented in stainless steel
tanks. The ferments were pumped over twice a day. Post alcoholic
fermentation, it was pressed to tank before racking off to barrel for malolactic fermentation and maturation blending together and fined, filtered and
bottled.