Campbell Mattinson 94 Points!
Huon Hooke 95 points!
Campbell Mattinson 94 Points!"I've long been a fan of Best's Bin O Shiraz but I really like the direction it's been heading in of late.
It's never been a tired or overdone style but recent releases have a freshness to them that I really enjoy. It's the clip of acidity, the fresh boysenberried flavours, the spunkiness of the oak " Bin O shiraz is never overtly or excessively oaked, but the oak you can detect in this 2008 version is sawdusty and cedary and eminently suited to the fruit. This is a Bin 0 release with a bit of sex appeal. It's still beautifully balanced, lightly tannic, nuanced by five-spice and clear through the finish. It's a very good Bin O Shiraz."
Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front, Dec 10
Huon Hooke 95 points!"This is a big, solid, powerful rendition, with intense dark-fruit aroma and flavour, density and chew, concentration and extract. A profound wine of tremendous length, one of the best Bin )'s in recent memory."
Huon Hooke, Gourmet Wine Traveller April/May 2011
"Best's Bin O Shiraz is sourced from four low yielding Concongella Shiraz blocks established in 1966, 1970, 1992 and 1994. Vinification takes place in open stainless steel fermenters. The wine is matured in a combination of 1/3 new and one and two year old French and American oak (barriques and puncheons) for around 12 months. In a declassified year some Thomson Family fruit (from some of the oldest Shiraz plantings in Victoria) can be included. Viv Thomson " 4th generation winemaker " believes that there are two types of wines, "talking wines and drinking wines". This is a happy blend of both. It has intense mulberry blackberry aromas, background oak and loose-knit gravelly tannins developing further complexity with medium term cellaring."
Langton's
Country:
Australia
Region:
VIC- Great Western
Variety:
Wine Red - Shiraz
Size:
750mL
