Weekend West May 2014

Positively stunning shiraz from this great Margaret River producer. Deep and powerful, yet with remarkable elegance and style. Spices and blackberry on the nose with a little blueberry and chocolate nuance. The palate has a sinewy thread holding the oak and tannin around the intense driving fruit flavours. An engaging savoury finish. All class.

Australian Wine Companion 2014

Strikes the palate like a well-timed cover drive. This is a wine of sweet and savoury impact. Black cherries, cloves, olives and floral notes. Quite beautiful. Tannin infused with notes of crushed dry leaf and earth. Scoots through your mouth and lingers appreciably.

Wine Business Monthly - Wines of the Year 2014

To achieve delicate perfume and bright, crunchy fruit vibrancy while upholding depth and determination is a red winemaking dream rarely realised as emphatically as this. Radiant elegance of crunchy red and dark berry/cherry/plum fruit meets layers of spice, pepper and pretty, lifted rose petal fragrance. The mouth feel is finely textured and impeccably poised, infused with great precision and potential.

Australian Gourmet Traveller 2014

This Shiraz is dark red/ purple, scented with dry spices and pepper. Its tannins are assertive on a very focused palate. Full-bodied, concentrated and powerful, it boasts penetration and length.

The Australian Wine Annual 2015

Underpinned by a thread of mint and menthol, this fine-grained shiraz of full to medium weight has a sweet dusty and peppery bouquet of vibrant cassis, redcurrants, raspberries and dark plums tightly knit with fresh cedar/vanilla oak. Supported by a dusty spine of crunchy tannin, its charming presence of intense, spicy small black and red berries, polished oak and slightly herbal/menthol notes finishes with a hint of tomato bush.

Huon Hooke

Deep red/purple colour; pepper, dry spices, savoury and mellow. Very tannic, dry palate with tight tannins and very focused grip. Full-bodied, dense and concentrated, with tight focus and great penetrating power. True concentration and length. An inner core of sweet fruit: a superb shiraz.

The Wine Front

Chocolate, spice, hazelnut, licorice, pepper, plums – the usual suspects. Medium bodied, smooth and evenly weighted, hazelnutty flavours married to plump perfectly ripened fruit, fine silky controlling tannin and neat acidity – all just so. Long and spicy. You might accuse it of being excessively manicured, though it’s a beautiful wine regardless. Classy as ever.