Such a seductive wine! Glowing in the glass, it offers a nose of sweet red candy, some raspberry leaf, black berry compote, a touch of orange peel and white pepper! So complex; fresh though rich. There's similar fruits on the palate, in a medium-bodied frame, with a soft, round finish. Succulent and fresh despite the richness.

Jason Schwarz was doomed to be a winemaker from his childhood. Ensconced in the vineyards of South Australia, in particular Bethany in the Barossa Valley, his parents had provided the suitable environment from the very beginning. After finishing his winemaking degree, he set off to see the world and completed vintages in France, the USA and Argentina, before returning home and starting his own label in 2001. Starting off with only a two barrels of Barossa Shiraz in the first year, he followed this with a similar amount of Grenache the next. The Grenache is still made every year and is a fixture in his offerings. With great fruit sources from the beginning and a heap of guidance from some key Barossa winemaking and grape-growing icons, the wines of Schwarz deliberately try to the show off the quality of the fruit with a minimum of intervention.