"The textbook 2010 vintage created powerful wines of purity with excellent fruit concentration, tannin structure and elegance. On the nose dark berries, traces of cedar and spice, chocolate, mint and earthy notes are also evident. The palate is plush with good intensity and complexity of flavours that will continue to evolve and mellow in the glass as well as in the cellar in over the next decade."
Woodstock
"Made from a small selection of north-facing, low-yielding shiraz vines, planted around 1900. Each vine creates about three bottles of wine. McLaren Vale shiraz in hearty, oaky mode.
It's not a modern style but it's good at what it does. You know the drill. Chocolate, saturated plums, blackberry, lots of blue, bubble-gummy, vanillin oak. It's smooth and slinky.. just the ticket for many.
The Wine Front, 29 March 2013.
The smoky, toasted, roasted aromas reveal generous oak treatment, while the black-fruit flavours beneath have a definite old vine profundity. It's full-bodied, with soft, smoothly textured tannins. The finish is long and harmonious. It will reward cellaring.
Huon Hooke, Gourmet Traveller Wine, August/September 2013.
Country:
Australia
Region:
SA- McLaren Vale
Variety:
Wine Red - Shiraz
Size:
750mL
