Nick Stock 97 points! 'Best Pinot Noir!'
Nick Stock 97 points! "The 2010 edition of this wine has the same resonant, deep nose of dark cherries and plum fruits, some spice and a convincing array of complexity that's been carefully built into the mix. The palate's very dense and very long, great depth, beautiful freshness as it builds, pure red and dark cherry flavour, oak adds weight but serves rather than dominates. Experience shines through here once again."
Nick Stock, The Age/SMH Good Wine Guide 2013
"I remember the first time I tried Sangreal, someone had hidden it under the table at a trade tasting so it added to the mystique. Young, impressionable MB liked these kinds of clandestine hand-outs from sales reps, before he got wise to it... Anyway, the tussle between Farrside, Sangreal and Tout Pres for 'favourite By Farr' is often mooted. For me, it's an evolving discussion, but Sangreal does feel the most 'feminine' of the wines, often a touch looser knit and more generously perfumed. To 2010..and again with the expansive perfume " this time mulberry and dark cherries, lavender, sage and a faint echo of meat dripping-like game character. The palate shows its whole bunch card early; slippery, glossy acidity driving the fern-tinged purple fruit long through the palate. There is a prettiness here, not quite delicacy, but a lifted, spirited charge across palate that is at once chaotic and yet flavour bounces within confines of supple tannins. It's a wilder expression here, but very attractive. Journey along with the wine."
Wine Front, June 2012
Country:
Australia
Region:
VIC- Geelong
Variety:
Wine Red - Pinot noir
Size:
750mL
