{"product_id":"elephant-in-the-room-stupendous-langhorne-creek-shiraz-2024-australia","title":"Elephant In The Room Stupendous Langhorne Creek Shiraz 2024 (Australia)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cspan\u003eIt's delightfully expressed on the nose, showing dark plum, liquorice, and toasted spice characters, followed by a silky-smooth palate offering succulent fruit flavours with supple texture and elegant tannins, making for excellent drinking. At its best: now to 2028\" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Jan 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMedium bodied but bursting with flavour, this Langhorne Creek Shiraz dishes up waves of blackberry, plum and a lick of dark spice and cocoa. The palate is juicy and plush with fine, velvety tannins and a bright line of acidity keeping it all in shape – subtle as an elephant in a tasting room, and just as hard to forget.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Elephant in the Room wines are proudly large in scale and expansive in flavour. Created to deliver full bodied and mouth-filling wines, Elephant in the Room gives consumers what they want- quality, flavour and something to talk about. Each wine is sourced from slow-ripening cool climate vineyards and partially matured in French Oak before final blending and bottling by Corey Ryan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2024 vintage in Langhorne Creek is generally understood to have been warm and relatively dry, leading to ripe, generously flavoured fruit and an earlier-than-average harvest. Reds tend to show plush, dark-fruited profiles with supple tannins, while whites are fuller in style yet retain enough acidity for balance, suggesting a solid to very good year for the region.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSourced from a selection of mature, dry-grown vineyards in Langhorne Creek managed by Jim Zerella. The fruit is partially hand-harvested before de-stemming and cool fermentation in small two tonne open fermenters with regular hand plunging. Matured in seasoned French oak (20% new French) for six months before bottling with minimal filtration and sulphur addition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"StonePony","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52794008371517,"sku":"SPELSZ24AU06","price":95.94,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0686\/9211\/5773\/files\/25134-1.jpg?v=1738192971","url":"https:\/\/www.blackmarket.co.nz\/products\/elephant-in-the-room-stupendous-langhorne-creek-shiraz-2024-australia","provider":"Black Market","version":"1.0","type":"link"}