Philip White 95+++ Points!
Philip White 95+++ Points!
"It's a silly thing to say while the wine's still in nappies, but
I think this is perhaps the pick of this year's releases, and
only after I'm falling to bits in the cold hard ground maybe
somebody who's still alive might be able to tell whether
this theory was correct.
In 2012, Seven Acre seems to combine the extremes of
Alice's and the Apricot without so much as a blink. It has
just enough icing and confection and the gentlest
blackberry juice to attract your focus, then it takes you
through the mint and basil patch and the stables with their
horses and harness, straight across the dusty bull ring past
all the blokes dressed up funny, under Hemingway's cigar,
through the little joint where they eat black Iberico ham
and warm olives and argue about their winnings after the
bullfight, out the back door and straight over a cliff into a
quarry.
If that little aromatic movie's not enough, you're welcome
to taste it. It's ravishing. It slinks across the tongue like an
asp. It leaves bits of chocolaty custard, crème de cassis,
framboise, dessicated coconut, enoki mushrooms and
maybe shiitake in oyster sauce.
Confused? Me too.
After a few days, your dainty asp turns into a twelve foot
black African cobra. And now, as it finally rears up before
my trusty steed, flicking that treacherous tongue about, I'm
gonna have to dismount and treat the bastard rough.
Just as well the bottle comes with its own solid plank of
American oak.
After you've whacked it once or twice, this wine deserves
decades in The Hole.
Scary."
Phillip White, Sep 2014
Country:
Australia
Region:
SA- Barossa Valley
Variety:
Wine Red - Shiraz
Size:
750mL
