In a word: perfumed. It washes up through your mouth in a blaze of musk and violets, its pure sweet fruitiness silken and lingering. This is gorgeously pure, and should cellar magnificently. I tasted this over a couple of days and it got better and better. If you like the St Henri style of shiraz, you cannot go wrong here. Drink: 2017-2035 96 points. Campbell Mattinson, The Winefront
Deeply fragrant with an alluring, floral and ethereal scent of blackberry liqueur, plums, dark cherries and musky spices with minty undertones of restrained oak and sweet leather, this is an elegant, fine-grained and richly flavoured example of the Australian ‘burgundy’ style, even though its label once contained the word ‘claret’. It’s long and brooding, with its restrained expression of pure, pristine fruit overlying a chalky backbone of kernelly tannin. Certain to flesh out magnificently. (Barossa, Langhorne Creek, Upper Adelaide, McLaren Vale, Padthaway, 18.9/96, drink 2024-2034) Jeremy Oliver
