[SOLD-OUT] Greenock Creek Roennfeldt Road Shiraz 2009

Philip White 94++++ Points!
"I don't reckon anybody's really gonna fully understand this wine until about 2030. Now that's said, it's got more primary fruit than any of the other wines in this year's release. That brand new Quercus alba barrel's both lemony and dusty. It's all over intense blackberry and mulberry that seems to have been hammered into a lozenge. Make that an ingot. Give it a few days and you'll find cherries, raspberries, sun-dried black russian tomatoes, and blood pudding. It completely invades the mouth after brutalising and battering the nose. It'll fool you into thinking it's soft and fluffy one minute, and then dumbfound you with its compression and blacksmithed heart. It's at once homogenised, shiny and smooth, but cranky and surly; dumbfoundingly complex yet somehow assimilated and trying to convince you it's best left alone. For a day or two I thought it was more or less along the lines of a mid-nineties Magill Estate, needing only the years, but then it turned into a sweaty black panther that's just rolled in sawdust and the big purr turned into a snarl. It ate me."
Phillip White, Sep 2014

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Country:

Australia

Region:

SA- Barossa Valley

Variety:

Wine Red - Shiraz

Size:

750mL