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• RBvGunten wrote: 92 points

  September 18, 2023 - 14.5%
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• AKC Likes this wine: 92 points

  February 4, 2023 - Lovely Shiraz. Not too ripe. So whilst there were blackberry overtones they ere not excessive. The wine was balanced but still youthful. Bright colour and classy fruit characters.

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• Dom K Likes this wine: 96 points

  July 13, 2019 - This wine was quite a revelation for me- I haven’t heard of this vineyard before but picked this up at the local cellar purely because of the Greenock location on its label. Wow- a fleshy fruit forward wine of sweet plums, sticky raspberries and sweet vanilla. I would actually categorise this as “elegant” for Barossa standards. Thoroughly approachable and enjoyable. Sweet fruit pastilles with toffee liqueur on the finish. Much better valued then some of its Greenock Creek neighbours. I’m stocking up on this one.

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• BBPP Likes this wine:

  December 3, 2017 - Test driving this to determine whether it ought get a start on The List (as one of my few entry level daily drinkers). High stakes then.
  
  Let’s start with the things I like:
  
  1. Packaging. I’m a huge fan of the propriety bottle and I’m a sucker for a red cap.
  
  2. Barossa Valley Single Vineyard Shiraz. When I see those words on a label it is a reflex reaction to reach for my wallet. It’s conditioning. Like Pavlov’s dog and the bell.
  
  3. Concentration of fruit. This is proper wine, they haven’t saved money on the grapes per litre ratio that’s for sure.
  
  Things I’m not sure about:
  
  1. I decanted this for 3hrs on account of it being a 2016 and a bit of a bruiser by reputation. That wasn’t enough. It needs about a day. It is still as tight as a watch spring and it is the wall of savoury tannin that I can’t get past. I bet there’s sweet fruit hiding behind it that will be revealed in years to come, but right now it’s drying.
  
  2. The oak. The label says American and French. I’d ditch the French. This style is crying out for a 100% big sweet American. I get it that French is more fashionable, and for Cabernets and cool climate shiraz American is an unnecessary distraction, like a low cut dress on Lady Di. But big Barossa shiraz is not that girl. This is Sophia Loren, so let’s get the girls out.
  
  3. Vegetable farts. Slight whiff of veggies or V8 juice. This is just a result of a very young, big wine needing some time to resolve itself.
  
  Overall, this is almost certainly excellent wine that’s suffering from understandable immaturity tonight. I want to try a 2015 before making a final assessment of this label.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2016
• Type Red
• Producer Kalleske
• Varietal Shiraz
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Greenock
• Country Australia
• Region South Australia
• SubRegion Barossa
• Appellation Barossa Valley
• UPC Code 9338191000013

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• In Cellars 169 (71%)
• Consumed 69 (29%)

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