Sigurd Barossa Valley GSM

In colour, a richly soft cross between antique ruby and American beauty ruby/scarlet. An unusual perfume: a kind of soft spice (pepper, cinnamon) sugar/honey, with strawberry-plum jam as a high end note. In the mouth it's soft and luscious, medium depth, a red you'd be very happy to drink in summer. It seems to be a really well-balanced complete package, like a good poem that, if you disturbed one thing, the whole would fall apart. But, then, a GSM is rarely bad. And Sigurd comes from the old Norse of guardian and victory!The label, I think, of a ship in sale in big waters at sea, doesn't really suit. (And with not year!) Sigurd could have gone with a version of the Chardonnay, but in the fantastic colour of this GMS: in fact the Facebook cover photo on at the time I write is much better: that is the very use of that colour in the name. Around $25, I found this at the Clunes Cellars/Wine Store, far north coast of NSW, under the canny stewardship of Jared Dixon, Sigud's young winemaker friend.