WINE OF THE WEEK: Bird in Hand Two in the Bush Shiraz 2024, Adelaide Hills, Australia
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£15, Tesco
You may be thinking anything but big reds in the current weather, but Shiraz doesn’t have to be a big beast. This isn’t. Medium-bodied, bright and polished, it’s a classic cool-climate Australian Shiraz and tastes brilliant lightly chilled. It also makes a great barbecue wine.
Oak has been used sensitively, maturation in French barrels (a small proportion new) giving a seasoning of cedary spice and a subtle, velvety chocolate note to the burnished blueberry and blackberry fruit and cool-breeze freshness.
Bird in Hand Two in the Bush Shiraz 2024 is from a very good quality vintage in Adelaide Hills, although it was miserly in volume after a cold winter, wet spring and poor fruit-set, among other challenges.
As a producer, Bird in Hand, which was founded by the Nugent family in 1997 and is still owned by them, is committed to sustainability and the environment (in view of which the bottle is inexplicably heavy).
You could drink Two in the Bush Shiraz 2024 any time in the next three years and it'll be spot on with steaks and pork chops (especially tomahawk) on the barbie, but it also pairs with magret de canard, duck confit, blackened salmon on salad, seared tuna with a soy glaze, roast and grilled Mediterranean veg and squash and it’s a useful red for dishes with spices, including tagines with fruit. 14%. Empty bottle weight: 708g.
Bird in Hand Two in the Bush Shiraz 2024, Adelaide Hills, Australia
£15, Tesco, and there’s 25% off with a Clubcard when you buy 6 or more bottles of wine for delivery by 29 June.
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