2022 Tyrrell's 8 Acres Shiraz - Hunter Valley Icon

98 Points - Erin Larkin, Wine Advocate

“This year, the 2022 8 Acres Shiraz seems to me to be the synthesis of 4 Acres and Johnno's. It has the supple, persistent drive of 4 Acres and the structure and filling of Johnno's. Together, they sing. This is excellent. It is supple, herbal, leafy and spicy, with notes of roses, tobacco, jasmine, lavender, black tea, peppercorns (pink and black and a few Sichuan), pomegranate, raspberry, iodine and blood plum. It is gorgeous, exciting, affirming. The 8 Acres vineyard was planted in 1892 on deep red clay soils over limestone. This was matured in a single three-year-old French oak cask for 14 months. 3,333 bottles filled. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.”

97 Points - Toni Paterson, Wine Advocate

“winecompanion.com.au Planted in 1892, this 'sacred site' produces a mesmerising, contemplative wine that will reward the patient. The fruit, sourced from north-south facing vines, is slightly deeper and darker in character than '4 Acres', with the flavours sitting in the cherry and mulberry spectrum, though still with a red berry overlay. Despite coming from the second oldest vineyard on the Tyrrell's Ashmans property, it is a thoroughly modern style. There's an engaging purity, concentration and succulence on the mid-palate, which unabashedly hooks one's interest, plus a fine, long, silky finish that will have you coming back for more.”

96 Points - Goodwin MW, Wine Advocate

“JamesSuckling.com Crunchy, brambly and brimming with summer-berry pudding accents, drawn taut by a chord of finely sewn tannins. This is the only wine of the 'Sacred Sites' that is inoculated. A more generous wine than the 4 Acres and easier to love, if not slightly less refined. Mid-weighted, but ever more forceful and kinetic across the mid-drift to the long finish, despite its definitive Hunter mid-weight. Drink or hold. Screw cap.”