Marchand and Burch is the side project of one of WA’s greatest producers. It’s certainly not an afterthought or casual endeavour though - after all, not all wines can rake in 95+ point reviews like this one has. All the fruit is hand harvested from one of Great Southerns’s most renowned vineyards before being fermented and left to get to know itself for 18 months in a mix of old and new French oak. You’ll find a shiraz that’s more on the elegant side here. There’s layers of ripe raspberries and plums leading the way with secondary characteristics of ginger, anise and cocoa. It’s medium-bodied, but there is an opulence to the wine, seemingly derived from the fruit concentration. Elegance and opulence, the perfect combination.