2022 Lioness of Mclaren Vale Shiraz, Dandelion Vineyards

McLaren Vale, Australia

Dark, expressive and beautifully assured, Lioness opens with ripe blackberry, black cherry and damson, layered with notes of dark chocolate, liquorice and warm spice. The palate is generous yet controlled, delivering plush McLaren Vale fruit wrapped in fine, velvety tannins and lifted by a savoury freshness that keeps everything in balance. There is depth and warmth here, but also clarity and shape, finishing long, smooth and confidently composed.

For when: you want richness that still feels elegant and intentional.
Pairs with: grilled lamb, beef short ribs, charred vegetables, or dishes with depth and spice.
If this wine were… a confident lead who commands the room without raising their voice.

Dandelion Vineyards is the project of Elena Brooks and Zar Brooks, known for crafting site-driven wines that celebrate South Australia’s great vineyard regions. Sourced from McLaren Vale, where ancient soils and cooling coastal influences shape wines of generosity and natural balance, Lioness reflects a thoughtful approach to Shiraz that favours texture and harmony over sheer power. Careful vineyard selection and sensitive winemaking allow the fruit to lead, resulting in a wine that captures McLaren Vale’s richness with refinement and restraint.

Whats in the bottle
100% Shiraz

£16.95
Taxes included.

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  • Producer Information
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Dandelion Vineyards is the venture of talented winemaker Elena Brooks, and her husband Zar. Their project makes wines from the Barossa and Eden Valleys, Fleurieu, the Adelaide Hills and McLaren Vale. Elena hails from Bulgaria. Her mother worked for a local producer, and so much of Elena’s childhood was spent in a winery. By 15, she was well-versed in the ins and outs of the winemaking process, and by 16, she had made her first wine. After formal study and stints making wine worldwide, Elena eventually settled in McLaren Vale with Zar and founded Dandelion Vineyards. Nick Stock, one of Australia’s leading journalists, wrote about Dandelion Vineyards saying, “The approach is remarkably simple and sees Elena making wine from a suite of beautiful old vineyards across that blessed curve that runs from the Barossa, up through the Eden Valley and Adelaide Hills and down into McLaren Vale.”

After hand picking whole bunches the fruit was left to ferment together in open-top fermenters with ambient yeasts and hand plunging for 12 days, before basket pressing into some new, but predominately older French oak barriques. The wine then matured for a further 18 months in the same oak, before bottling without fining or filtration to capture the essence of the vineyard.

2022 Lioness of Mclaren Vale Shiraz, Dandelion Vineyards

£16.95

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