2005 Shiraz
Dark red with a purple hue. The nose is quite restrained and primary. Dark forest fruits, fennel,five-spice, pepper and vanillan oak all show influences. The palate is well structured with rich, youthful fruit characters, aniseed, black pepper and other savoury notes. A well-rounded, lush palate with good length and rich tannins.
Reviews
2005: Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)
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2004: Feb/March 2007 Campbell Mattinson (Gourmet Traveller Wine)
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2005: August 2010 James Halliday (Australian Wine Companion 2011)
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Sour-sweet wine of dimension and class. More Burgundy-styled than Rhone-styled. Glossy, bright cherry-plum flavours with pure cedar, undergrowth, soy and sap, the tannin finish on it quite exemplary. Needs another three years in bottle. Drink: 2011-2015. 91 points.
"2004: Feb/March 2007 Campbell Mattinson (Gourmet Traveller Wine)
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This is a brooding, silken, textural wine blessed with meat and cedar and pepper and black cherry, but most noted for the beautiful feel in your mouth. You don’t want to let it go.
"2005: August 2010 James Halliday (Australian Wine Companion 2011)
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Impeccable cool Victorian shiraz, with red fruits framed by an array of exotic spices; the key here is the texture, as it is silky and very supple, with attractive oak and fruit in complete harmony; has a distinctly European feel. Cork. 15%alc. Rating 95. Drink 2020
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