Sam Plunkett The Butterfly Effect Reserve Shiraz 2018
About the wine
This is your desert-island Shiraz
It’s no wonder this smooth and vibrant Shiraz has scooped up 92%+ scores back-to-back! Sam’s signature red is like stealing a slice of hot berry pie cooling on the window sill – you know, the kind that’s always off-limits... but so decadently delicious.
Sam loves nothing more than taking plump, juicy grapes from the vineyard and watching them come to life in the winery. Your support gave him the firepower to use three different fermenters (!) for this big red – building endless layers of supple richness like the passionate flavor scientist he is.
Your Aussie winemaker goes all out on the barbie for this sultry Shiraz. His favorite is a “tender piece of fillet right off the pit barrel” – Oz speak for beef tenderloin. It’s just as tasty with a juicy burger or some smoky pulled pork!
Best before
This wine will almost have two lives. I like as a young wine (next 1-2 years) for its primary fruit flavours and supple texture. But some people will put it away for medium term cellaring years (4-6 years); the red and purple hue will become increasingly brick red, and those plum and blackberry flavours will decrease with more savoury flavours coming to the front. For me, drink it as a youngster for the lovely fruit flavours, but it has some ability to age and mature into a more savour complex full bodied red!
Serving advice
No need to decant, but if you can I think it tastes best a little cooler than room temperature - say 60-60ºF.
Food match
This is a versatile red and will match with most red meat dishes. At home we drink it with spaghetti Bolognese, or ragu which a favourite of our 14 year old son (the ragu, not the Shiraz!)
Contains sulphites
Wine profile
Meet the winemaker - Sam Plunkett
- Sam is one of our Australian All-Stars. He garnered lots of attention as the award-winning winemaker at Plunkett Fowles.
- But Plunkett Fowles hit rough waters and Sam wasn't sure he'd be able to stay in the wine business...until he became Angel funded. Your support put his startup on the map.
- Now Sam is off to the races – with the same dedication to quality winemaking that won so many accolades at Plunkett Fowles – and none of the bother about sales and marketing.
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