2022 LAS Vino ‘Pirate Blend’ Touriga Nacional Blend

95 Points, Ray Jordan 
Peterkin has taken a deft approach to gently coax the delightful fragrances and flavours from these varieties. So many things happening on the nose with spicy, cloves and light plum with a subtle chocolate coating. It's such a vibrant high energy wine with bright fruit flavours lifting from the palate.

94 Points, Jane Faulkner, Hallidays Wine Companion 
The combo of touriga nacional 65%, tinta cao 32% and the 3% splash of souzao makes for an approachable and excellent red for pirates or anyone else for that matter. These varieties are rare in Margaret River, yet Nic Peterkin sources them off a 40-year-old site in Yallingup. It’s such a good wine, unpretentious, a little earthy, a little rustic, with lots of dark fruit, cocoa, currants, sumac and fresh herbs in the mix. Full bodied and juicy, with grainy, pomace-like tannins plus bright acidity, which means this needs hearty fare as a friend.

94 Points, Stuart Knox The Real Review 
Deep ruby, shining with purple tints at the rim. Blueberry, vanilla oil,  and cumin seed aromatics. Palate is full and the dark fruits have great intensity and presence. All that power is judiciously matched to fine, yet powerful tannins that compress without cutting the flow so it carries incredible length. Towards that long finish there’s an explosion of exotic spices that takes it to another level