March 22, 2024 - Deep, cherry red with clear meniscus. Awesome bouquet of ripe, black cherry, strawberries and sun dried tomato. palate is deep, rich and full bodied incorporating stacks of ripe black fruit, vanilla, saddle leather, liquorish with soft velvety tannins and gentle acidity. A fully mature masterpiece. WOW!!!!!!!!
July 9, 2023 - Rich deep intense sweet fruitcake and blackcurrant on the nose and palate. There is still plenty of fruit at 24 years old. The delicious heavily extracted fruit is accompanied by garique herbs, forest floor, old saddle leather and cedar wood. Full bodied, the structure of acidity and tannin still provides grip, though is softening now. Very definitely an Australian Shiraz, though my notes coukd easily suggest a rich Cali cabernet. This is fuller and sweeter than a Cali cab. Long and complex. I think this is perfect miw, though will last for years.
April 22, 2023 - 13.5%. Dark core, ruby edges, faint brick at the rim. Fragrant lifted fruit, faint hint of menthol, plummy, top note of dust. Good tartness, dense on the attack, medium length, slightly short finish. Tannins slightly powdery but fully integrated. Very good. Peak drinking.
December 8, 2022 - 7/10 - bold, pretty decent not grippy
April 28, 2022 - Drank this wine at Manhill Restaurant over dinner with my wine mates. Theme of the evening: Syrah (or Shiraz) or Syrah dominant wines.
March 25, 2022 - drank 1 hour and 45 minutes after decanting. Lots of oak, spices, and mint in the nose. Pretty smoky, tobacco, and plenty of black fruits like plums. No longer got the same punchiness like your typical young Aussie shiraz, this had good acidity balance while retaining the good concentration and some tannins. Very nice.
March 22, 2022 - The benefit of good cellaring. This wine was great, still plenty of fruit although not strong. A full, round wine with fairly soft tannins and a long finish. We will finish the bottle tonight with a nice cheese.
October 10, 2021 - Beautiful mature shiraz, everything in balance and harmonious, very complete.
August 23, 2021 - served after 30 minutes in decanter. Sweet, definitely vanilla and coconut, minty, woodsy. Showed pine needle notes 1 hour in. After 2 hours became pretty dry on the palate, and very minty after 2½ hours, and much more smoky, less sweet fruit, and more acidic on the palate.
October 23, 2020 - Still very good, but it has lost a lot of its fuit, flavor and complexity as a result. Elegant for a Shiraz at this stage, but was probably more interesting 3 years from now