Wine Front 94 points!
Wine Front 94 points!
"Meaty, red fruit and spice aromas. Dustiness too, but good regional way. Fine and fresh to taste " red fruited again and with gentle sweetness, some bristling acidity and ropes of coiled tannin trimming the wine to slender. Impressive length, elegance and carry. Fine wine."
Mike Bennie, Wine Front, 27 May 2013
"Part of the secret to this wines success is also the inclusion of a little (10%) French coopered American oak, which gives a chocolatey edge that only enhances the generous, open-knit flavours. Like many of the great '11 Hunter Shiraz (it was an excellent vintage in the Hunter. Patchy elsewhere, but very strong in the Hunter), this has a bright boysenberry colour that is so very distinctive. You just don't see that boysenberry purple colour anywhere else.
It's a bright wine too, with jubey, purple plum fruit apparent from the get-go. Very sweet fruited and ripe. You expect this to be sweeter and confected than it tastes actually, for it smells like chocolatey, grape Hubba-Bubba. But that's the clincher - It's quite soft, the sugar plum juiciness abounding, yet still capped off with a fillip of late tannins and a red earth tinged palate that is anything but sugar sweet. Warm clime Shiraz doing its thing."
Oz Wine Reviews
Country:
Australia
Region:
NSW- Hunter Valley
Variety:
Wine Red - Shiraz
Size:
750mL
