Pfeiffer 2009 Carlyle Shiraz

While phone calls from wineries offering special deals are always welcome in The Little House of Concrete, the failure of the Pikes Riesling & Shiraz Dozen to lob on the doorstep close to three weeks after the order was placed has meant that Hughesy's powering through the April Dozen from Pfeiffer's C2 Club with not quite alarming rapidity but certainly a fair bit quicker than might otherwise have been the case.
Reorder considerations have also been disrupted buy this situation, with orders to Cullen, Lerida Estate, Lark Hill and Clonakilla in the pipeline, so whether this one features in later calculations is anyone's guess.

Pfeiffer 2009 Carlyle Shiraz (4* $?, but presumably $18.50 C2 $16.65) I'm not quite sure why this one found its way into the April C2 Dozen some four months before it becomes available for general consumption, but while it worked rather well and kept me going as I worked my way through a Fred Vargas novel after dinner I'd be more inclined to head for the  Pfeiffer Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz if an order was going in within the next month or two.
Deep red in the glass, spicy pepper on the nose and a long finish it's a hearty winter red, though it'll (hopefully) be well after winter has passed before ordering considerations kick in. A couple of bottles to pad out an order when the 2011 Gamay appears, perhaps? I'd still, subject to availability, be inclined in other directions at this point in time.