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95
/ 100
Huon Hooke -
95
/ 100
Andrew Caillard MW -
97
/ 100
James Halliday
Red
Classification
Shiraz
Variety
2020
Vintage
750ml (Bottle)
Bottle Size
Australia
Country
South Australia, Adelaide Hills
Region
13.0%
Alcohol %
5-10 Years
Cellaring
Scores
95 / 100"Medium-deep colour with a tint of purple and a sousbois, forest-floor bouquet, possibly whole-bunch influenced, with assorted spices including black pepper, and the palate is full bodied and rich, generous, ample and ripe with generosity and texture that appeals. Long finish and a resonant, fleshy mouth-feel. A compelling mix of cool grown spices and superripe abundance of flavour and body. Date Tasted: Mar 2023; Drink: 2023 to 2038; Price: $95.00"
- Huon Hooke
95 / 100
"Medium deep crimson. Intense mulberry, blackberry pastille mocha aromas with hint of bush garrigue. Medium bodied wine with cassis flavours, fine leafy texture, a touch of black pepper and underlying savoury notes. Lovely weight, viscosity and purity. Drink now - 2028."
- Andrew Caillard MW
97 / 100
"This for me is one of the red wines of the year. It’s so savoury, so firm, so deeply fruited and so compelling at every turn. It’s heady with fragrant dry-and-green herbs, comes laced with pretty floral notes, pours rich cherry, plum and graphite flavours straight at you and coats everything in the lightest, most deft application of smoky, chocolate-like oak. It’s brilliant to drink now but it will mature for absolute yonks. It’s magnificent."
- James Halliday
Tasting Notes
From close-planted (5,500 vines/ha) low yielding vines at Shaw + Smith's Balhannah Vineyard, planted in 2005. It has a north-facing aspect and the soils are loam over clay, ironstone, quartzite, and shale. Hand picked and fermented as predominantly whole bunches (70%) and the remainder whole berries, in open fermenters, with gentle plunging and minimal working.
A complex, finely-textured Shiraz expressing the conditions of each vintage and the character of a unique vineyard site.
Tasting Profile
- Light
- Full
- Low Tannin
- Tannic
- Sweet
- Dry
- Low Acidity
- High Acidity