2016 Abednego GSM, Grant Burge

The Barossa Trinity in Velvet

This is Barossa GSM with old-vine gravitas and a generous, velvet-lined heart. A blend of 48% Grenache, 40% Shiraz and 12% Mourvèdre, it opens with dark plum, raspberry, black cherry and bramble fruit, followed by liquorice, sweet spice, cinnamon, vanilla, earth and a savoury flicker of dried herbs. Grenache brings warmth and spice, Shiraz gives depth and structure, and Mourvèdre adds dark-fruited richness and a little brooding complexity.

The palate is rich, dense and mouth-filling, but impressively balanced. There is plenty of ripe Barossa fruit, with plum, blackberry, spice and liquorice moving through fine, persistent tannins and a long, textured finish. Now mature enough to show softness and savoury detail, it still carries the concentration and old-vine depth to feel serious. Powerful, polished and deeply satisfying. Drink now to 2035.

For when you want Barossa richness with spice, structure and a little ancient-wine wisdom.
Pairs with ribeye steak, slow-cooked lamb shoulder, duck with plum sauce, venison, barbecue brisket, smoky aubergine, or hard-aged cheeses.
If this wine were… a room, it would be a candlelit cellar lined with old oak, velvet chairs and stories that get better after midnight.

Grant Burge Wines is one of the Barossa’s great names, rooted in five generations of Burge family viticulture and a deep understanding of South Australia’s most famous wine region. The family’s story in the Barossa stretches back to the 1800s, while the Grant Burge name has become synonymous with generous, expressive wines shaped by old vineyards, regional warmth and polished winemaking. Abednego sits in the estate’s Icons range alongside Meshach and Shadrach, completing the trio with a rare, premium expression of Barossa Grenache, Shiraz and Mourvèdre from mature estate vines.

The origin of the name of this wine comes from the fact that Abednego in Hebrew means the ‘Servant of Nego’, the Babylonian god of wisdom. Abednego, with Shadrach and Meshach, were cast into the fiery furnace by King Nebuchadnezzar in 600BC.