eRobertParker.com 93 Points!
Phillip White 93+++ Points!
eRobertParker.com 93 Points!"Very deep garnet-purple colored, the 2008 Alices Shiraz gives pronounced blackberry and black cherry compote aromas overlying anise, chocolate box, vanilla, cedar and cloves. Full-bodied with very crisp acid and very firm fine grained tannins, this is a beautifully produced Shiraz with great balance and persistence. Drink it 2014 to 2022+. "
Lisa Perrotti-Brown, Wine Advocate # 192 Dec 2010
Phillip White 93+++ Points!"Alices typical white bread and cream are becoming as regular as clockwork, drought or not. This vineyard produces incredibly plush, fleshy flavour which this year has been neatly offset with some edgy, spicy oak and the acrid prickle of the dust and stone and pronounced aniseed and licorice tints. The 08 fig and prune duo are obvious, but they're mere filling in all that spongy white Vienna flesh: there's not much amalgamation happening yet in this dazzling, tantalizing spectrum of aromas. So the wine's a bit scatty and juvenile and hasn't yet learned some simple grooming. After all that sniffing, the palate's slinky, and seems to be wrapped like sinew, muscle and chubby fat around a whiprod acid spine. Like the Seven Acre, the tannins are finer and less obvious than usual. As far as cats go, this is a rather naughty, plump young Russian Blue."
Phillip White
Country:
Australia
Region:
SA- Barossa Valley
Variety:
Wine Red - Shiraz
Size:
750mL
