"The nightshades are profuse in this remarkable wine. This family of flowering plants " the Solonaceae " range from the deadly datura and belladonna through the mandrake, tobacco and petunia tribes to many essential edibles: capsicum, potato, aubergine, tomato, tamarillo, Goji berry, huckleberry and so on. While the fruits might be here aromatically " I can smell lightly roasted capsicum, for example, tamarillo, and soaking Goji - it is the leaves of these dark green plants that give this wine its glowering mood. It's uncanny. After a few days, odd pretty bits emerge. There's some frivolous, but alluring musk, some blueberry, some ground juniper berry, and some stern oak. There's a hint of soft caramel toffee, and a smell like the rough skin of the cantaloupe. But it's the stewed, reduced, compacted leaves of the nightshades that give it its dark soul. The palate has all the above. It has more evident primary fruit than the freakish 05 Roennfeldt's Shiraz, but again it seems to be pouring like some kind of black gold - whose melting point is cellar temperature - from an alchemist's concentrating furnace. A liquor. The feeling is dumbfounding. The tannins are fine and entirely supportive, the palate length and aftertaste amazing. One sip will outlast two cigarettes and a whisky. A very rare beast indeed, and one which will be remembered and revered for at least forty years." - Phillip White
“The 2005 Roennfeldt Road Cabernet Sauvignon is very deep garnet-purple colored, giving intense earthy aromas of damp hummus and iron ore over crushed black currants, ripe blueberries, Mediterranean herbs, cloves, cardamom, hung meat, charred planks and cedar. Medium-bodied, it’s very crisp and tight knit with firm fine tannins, layers of earth, cassis and savory flavors, and a very long finish. With decanting, readers could consider broaching this now, though ideally leave it another 3 years+ in bottle and enjoy from 2014 to 2024+. ” - Lisa Perotti-Brown MW, eRobertParker.com, 2010
