Plush and concentrated with generous flavour and palate weight. Boysenberries and dark cherries with accents of clove, liquorice and vanilla. The tannins are ripe and plentiful. Rich and luscious.

Co-ferments of shiraz and cabernet are rare, cabernet usually ripening later than shiraz. Not strictly a field blend (the blocks are separate), but picked on the same day. Cabernet may be the junior partner, but it certainly has its say with its different tannin profile. The bouquet is fragrant, cassis and blackberry a dancing duo. I’m not as convinced about this wine as its Shiraz sibling.

Bonza Aussie red blend. It’s laden heavily with oak, both chewy-twiggy-cedary in flavour and scents of fresh lathed wood, clove and smoke. Hard to get past. Dark berry and dark chocolate flavours are laboured with splintery-smoky characters to taste, and the wine pulls up firm and hard quickly on that oak. There’s big impact despite that, so if this kind of wine is of your wheelhouse, then it should do the trick.

Bonza Aussie red blend. It’s laden heavily with oak, both chewy-twiggy-cedary in flavour and scents of fresh lathed wood, clove and smoke. Hard to get past. Dark berry and dark chocolate flavours are laboured with splintery-smoky characters to taste, and the wine pulls up firm and hard quickly on that oak. There’s big impact despite that, so if this kind of wine is of your wheelhouse, then it should do the trick.