Croix, Corton Charlemagne Vintage:2023 The 2018 The Standish Shiraz

The 2018 The Standish Shiraz (a sample blend from barrel) is a bit stalky (it's about 50% whole cluster)

dark chocolate and hints of rose petal

as if it had been excessively fined and/or filtered

elegant finish

Croix, Corton Charlemagne Vintage:2023 The 2018 The Standish Shiraz(from Le Charlemagne). A pretty, fresh and well layered nose consists of both white and yellow orchard fruit, and in particular green apple, as well as notes of acacia, mineral reduction and citrus zest. There is excellent volume and punch to the muscular and imposingly scaled flavors that exhibit a driving minerality on the cool, focused and strikingly long bitter lemon inflected finish. This terrific effort is very clearly built to age yet could