Jay Miller, Wine Advocate 98+ points!
Wine Advocate 98+ points!
"Torbreck's flagship is the 2005 Run Rig, a 97% Shiraz cuvee sourced from 120- to 160-year-old vines with 3% finished Viognier added before bottling. It spent 30 months in 60% new French oak. Opaque purple/black in color, it has a kinky, exotic bouquet of fresh road tar, smoke, lavender, black pepper, game, blueberry, and black raspberry. Full-bodied and opulent on the palate, the wine is dense, packed, and unevolved. It will continue to open up over the next 10-12 years and drink well through 2040 in the style of a Chapoutier Hermitage. If it develops as I think it will, it will be a candidate for perfection down the road. Drink: 2009 - 2040"
Wine Advocate # 181 Feb 2009 Jay Miller
Campbell Mattinson 95 points!
"Stunning wine. A blaze of crushed fennel, smoke, blackberry and oystery notes, the riot of it then chanting out through the palate. There's masses of brandied, smoky, jammy flavour here, its warm alcohol noticeable but well accommodated. An incredible wine. Drink: 2008-2020.
Campbell Mattinson, Wine Front.
Jeremy Oliver 95 points!
"Ultra-ripe and profoundly concentrated, luxuriantly unctuous and lavishly sumptuous, this wild, briary and exotically musky blend is the best Runrig of recent times. Ethereal and floral, with understated elements from viognier, its meaty perfume of brambly fruit, dark olives and charcuterie notes precedes a long, seamless and deeply layered palate. It finishes spirity and rather sauvage, with undertones of minerals and slightly cooked suggestions of raisins, currants and treacle. You don't need technical perfection to be delicious."
Jeremy Oliver, OnWine.
Country:
Australia
Region:
SA- Barossa Valley
Variety:
Wine Red - Shiraz
Size:
750mL
