Critic Reviews
98 Points - Stuart Knox, The Real Review
“ Dense ruby with rich purple tones at the rim. Blueberry, ground cumin and fennel with a touch of reductive lift on the nose. Loaded with blue fruits at the core, intense yet not overbearing. There’s layers of cured meats, subtle Sichuan pepper spice and floral lifts along the line with deeper wakame and iodine tones underneath. It’s all bound by a supple acidity and finely wrought tannins, gentle in their guidance but resolute in their persistence, carrying it for an age to an eventual bright and fresh finish.”
97 Points - Phillip Rich, The Wine Companion
“ A blend of 99.5/.05% shiraz/viognier. Fermented with whole berries and matured in barriques (30% new). The cool vintage shows through in what's a lovely and elegant rendition of this Yarra Valley classic. Aromas of red and black fruits, spices and ironstone together with a gentle meatiness. Medium bodied and supple. An approachable and quite delicious Dry Red No. 2 that will provide copious amounts of enjoyment now and over the next 10–15 years. ”
95 Points - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
“The combination of bright-but-complex flavour, creamy mouthfeel, good general concentration and immaculate structure places this wine in excellent territory in a canter. That said, it has yet more going for it. This wine has an air of “Burgundian shiraz”, so to speak, in its rendition of delicacy, and combination of nuts shells and dried herbs, and in the way it almost feels water-based, even as it delivers solid flavour. This wine is drinking beautifully even now, though once the creaminess of the oak has had more time to settle in and down, it will be better again.”
95 Points - Jeremy Oliver, Oliver's Wines
“A charming, complex and alluring shiraz with the tiniest splash of viognier. Smoky, complex and alluring scents of charcuterie meats, blackberries, briar and cedary oak precede a long, meaty, smoky and savoury palate of medium weight whose enticing core of black and dark red and blue fruits is pleasingly met with creamy cedary oak and smoky, meaty complexity. It finishes long, soft and gentle. Quite a stunner and likely to build.”
