Posted: December 3, 2021
A lively wine with great concentration of elegant blackberry/plum and licorice fruit characters, some fine and lively tannins with great acidity.
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Posted: December 3, 2021
Dense briary fruit fragrances; some forest floor and licorice. Great varietal fruit intensity and length; tastes of cherries and raspberries with tea leaf characters and fine tannins.
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Posted: December 3, 2021
Red fruit fragrances with a complexity of cigar-like oak, marzipan and malt. Well-rounded in the mouth with flavours of plums and cherries.
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Posted: December 2, 2021
Pretty candied fruit bouquet with a tincture of lavender and a delightfully harmonious palate with great integration of shiraz fruit with licorice notes and the oak.
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Posted: December 2, 2021
Dark sweet shiraz fruit on the nose that carries through to the palate and integrates nicely with the oak and tannins.
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Posted: December 2, 2021
This wine is both brooding and complex and fresh and inviting. Great weight of dark fruit characters, lovely complexity, chewy tannins, a creamy palate and even finish.
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Posted: December 2, 2021
A dense bouquet of dark fruits, cherry cola and licorice with a generous, sweet and chewy palate, quite savoury and showing good tannin profile and integration.
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Posted: December 2, 2021
Dark, ripe and brooding with forest floor-like edge to the blue varietal fruit. Chewy tannins and tart acid.
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Posted: November 30, 2021
Briary density on the nose with chocolaty oak. Palate offers a mouthful of Rocky Road-like flavours with big tannins.
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Posted: November 30, 2021
Exotic lifted spicy bouquet with blackcurrant fruit with floral nuances. The palate is dense and tannic and full of black fruit and licorice flavours with gamey complexity.
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Posted: October 4, 2018
A big developed old style shiraz. Very oaky but has sufficient rich spicy fruit underneath.
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Posted: October 4, 2018
A simple, elegant and lifted red berry bouquet and beautifully soft in the mouth with some lovely bright juicy dark fruit flavours.
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Posted: May 2, 2018
Pleasantly mellow aged fruit bouquet. Soft and savoury in the mouth with good length of fine tannins. Easy to drinker but do it soon!
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Posted: May 2, 2018
Developed spicy nose but is still bright with red fruit fragrances. Good length and concentration of mature flavours that are laced with lots of warming alcohol.
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Posted: September 6, 2017
A soft integration of fruit and oak with a similar palate and long lingering after taste. 5+
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Posted: September 6, 2017
An aromatic complexity of black fruits and savoury oak with concentrated licoricey flavours and fine drying tannins.
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Posted: September 6, 2017
A massive developed shiraz with powerful stewed fruit bouquet and luxuriously rich sweet fruit flavours.
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Posted: June 29, 2017
Fragrant aromas; a tad malty and a soft simple palate. Good depth of plum fruit and some aged notes. “Still very cellarable!”
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Posted: June 29, 2017
An attractive vibrancy of blue black fragrances and nice presence of blueberry fruit flavours with a supple line of tannins. 5+
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Posted: June 29, 2017
Powerful lifted plum aromas with vanilla oak sitting on top. Dense, oaky and savoury in the mouth with underlying fruit characters. Needs even more time. 3-5
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Posted: June 29, 2017
Subtle blue fruits on a brooding nose. Palate has a “nice cooler climate feel”, said one judge.
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Posted: June 29, 2017
Perfumed blueberry bouquet with nutty notes coming from the oak. Complex palate with good tertiary development evident. Nice tannin length. 5+
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Posted: April 26, 2017
A monster! Dark brooding berries on the nose and palate; loads of cigar box oak. Needs years! 5+
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Posted: April 26, 2017
Very ripe inky old fashioned style of shiraz. Aromas ranging from plums to prunes with vibrant berry flavours. 5+
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Posted: April 5, 2017
Slightly closed, restrained style; needs more time. Chocolaty nose with medicinal notes. Fleshy flavoursome palate.
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Posted: April 5, 2017
Tight restrained perfumed bouquet with layers of integrated spicy fruit/oak flavours.
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Posted: April 4, 2017
A balanced lighter style with slightly green aromas and peppery/smoked meat palate.
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