April 25, 2024 - Day 1: Birthday wine. Awesome. Soy, spices, white pepper, boysenberry, minerals, blackberries and menthol. Awesome stuff. 04 is the best vintage from Australia from the decade. Cheers mate. 95 points
April 11, 2024 - incredible Australian shiraz by Ben Glaetzer. A masterwork that proves that Australian wines are age worthy wines of substance
March 9, 2024 - What a stunner. Someone described this as a sea of calmness but this particular bottle was more like a slender yet sleek, quietly powerful wine. The tannins have mellowed but still structurally supports gracefully with appropriate acid. The bouquet is one of berries, flowers and soft vanilla leather. One of the best new worlds I’ve tried.
November 27, 2023 - Finally my last bottle. Fun to witness the evolution of this wine over the years. It has now completely settled down, no more in your face fruitiness, just a sea of calmness.
October 30, 2023 - Wonderfully fresh black fruit on nose and palate with black pepper, anise, and clove notes. Rich and ripe, but managing to maintain enough subtlety and restraint. The old vine concentration here is particularly noteworthy.
October 24, 2023 - I really agree with Forceberry's note here. This was clearly New World, clearly a big wine but never went over the line. A great steak wine. Shared with my parents (non-winos) who thoroughly enjoyed it. Good memories!
July 30, 2023 - This wine does not look or smell like it’s almost 20yo. Nose is powerful and driven by red plum, dark cherry with a background of leather. With air the wine starts showing more dry fruit and nutmeg. Mouth is medium to full bodied. Acidity is gone and tannins fully resolved bc. It’s not heavy and it doesn’t feel 15%. Prune and baking spice flavors lead in a medium finish
January 22, 2022 - Fantastic wine from Barossa, agree with other comments saying this is as good as this region can produce. This is still full-bodied, dark-fruited, with black cherry and plum fruit, and notes of baking spices, mocha and cedar. Creamy and velvety in texture. Great wine and has more yrs to go. Maybe complexity not the best, but who cares!
January 4, 2022 - Dense and very concentrated black fruit with so much anise, black pepper and clove. Clearly so ripe in the manner that is unmistakable for New World style, but with an enticing Old World flavor profile that really thrilled me tonight. Great length and balance.
December 8, 2021 - Purple in color. Soaring aromas of black cherries, black currants, violets bbq smoke and tar. Rich and dense in the mouth with sweet dark berry jam, charcoal, medium (-) acidity, fine tannins making its presence felt and a very long fruit filled finish. This has not aged one bit. Damn good for the genre.