Adelina is a relative newcomer with wines from Clare Valley (their home) and McLarenVale. Its recent 2021 Adelina McLaren Vale Shiraz received high praise from many critics.
If you plan to drink this wine now, you need to decant the bottle for a number of hours at least. My review is based on a tasting on day two, when the wine has settled some.
This wine is red fruited, very fresh, with some green apple flavours, somewhat unusual for Shiraz. The wine is not unripe, but certainly lives at the early envelope of ripening. It is a very vibrant wine with firm acidity and chalky tannins. Think of it as the antithesis of Torbreck, perhaps.
I think all the elements are there, including fruit quality, but it has pushed modernity a bit far for my liking. And the wine needs to soften. It is definitely great value at its price.
Score: 91-92/+
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