Robert Parker 91 points!
Jeremy Oliver 95 points!
Wine Spectator 90 points!
Robert Parker 91 points!
The 1999 Steading, a southern Rhone blend of 60% Grenache, 20% Shiraz, and 20% Mourvedre. Two thousand cases were produced of this Chateauneuf du Pape look-alike from Australia's Barossa Valley. It is a terrific, deep purple-colored effort offering a sweet nose of pepper, black fruits, earth, tobacco, and cassis. Sweet on the attack (from ripe fruit, not sugar), this full-bodied, concentrated, powerful wine (14.5% alcohol) builds in the mouth to a creamy textured, blockbuster finish.
Wine Advocate #135 (Jun 2001) Robert Parker
Jeremy Oliver 95 points!"The drinking red for the thinking southern Rhone freak. Intensely perfumed with deeply scented, earthy and spicy grenache and mataro fruit over lightly creamy cedar and chocolate oak, it's opulent and briary, with deep leathery flavours of small berry fruits and smallgoods. Long, fine, savoury and bony, it's handsomely the best release yet under this label."
Jeremy Oliver, OnWine.
Wine Spectator 90 points!"Crisp, almost bracing, with firm tannins and bright acidity supporting ripe berry and cherry flavors, which remain open and round on the finish, picking up hints of chocolate and pepper. Grenache, Shiraz and Mourvèdre. Drink now through 2006."
HS, www.winespectator.com
Country:
Australia
Region:
SA- Barossa Valley
Variety:
Wine Red - Grenache
Size:
750mL
