Ingoldby McLaren Vale Shiraz is deep red in colour with purple hues. Red berries and plums on the nose, a spicy, peppery, plummy palate with good length of flavour and a smooth, lingering finish.

The pinnacle of Chapel Hill's best parcels of red come together to form The Vicar, a prestige full blooded McLaren Vale Shiraz of great distinction. Painstakingly chosen from selected single-vineyard McLaren Vale sites, The Vicar is overflowing with ripe mulberry and licquorice flavours interlinked with sublime oak influence from over 80% French oak influence.

From two small vineyards that stood out for their ability to capture true McLaren Vale chocolate, spices and an amazing depth of red fruits and blackberry.

Aromas of rose water, cumquat and strawberry. The strawberry characters continue on to the palate, along with cherry and the delicate flavour of lychee. The wine is soft, textural and easy drinking, best served chilled. ‘There has been a concerted effort here to work the wines less, as a means to craft intuitive expressions of heart and site. And it shows! Harvested at the point of optimal flavour and freshness. The scents are a saline scrimmage of rose petals, musk, bergamot, verbena, quince and mandarin. The mid-palate is plump and juicy. The finish, long and mellifluous, flecked with salt crystals and mineral pungency. Reliant more on chew than any sense of tweaked freshness. Very good rosé’ - 93 Points

Retasted on 19/11/2021 Translucent salmon pink in colour. Lifted raspberry, peach and pomegranate scents are followed by a whiff of musk. Tangy blood orange, raspberry and cranberry fruits have a light refreshing feel with some stony mineral characters lying underneath. Dry crisp finish with a lively aftertaste. Drink over the next year. Alc. 13% Translucent damask pink colour with a watery hue. Fragrantly scented, the nose offers up a bouquet of peach, raspberry, strawberry, musk and spice. Refreshing peach and raspberry fruits show good flesh across the palate with subtle infusions of spicy musk and wet stone lying underneath. Finishes dry with brisk acidity and a slightly tangy aftertaste. Drink over the next year. Alc 13%

The aroma is fresh and perfumed, showing bright raspberry and some red cherry, with hints of floral violets.