95 Point Rated - Barossa Wine Show 2021

92 Point Rated - Jeni Port Wine Pilot

"Sourced from the noted Greenock and Ebenezer sub-regions of the Barossa Valley, areas with a long history of delivering rich, ripe, generous shiraz. It is worth noting that French and American oak play a big role here, a Barossa shiraz tradition offering a mix of elegance and power in the oak department that is more than a match for the abundant fruit.

Black, deep and dense in colour. Sumptuous blackberry, chocolate, licorice, cedar aromas. Nothing shy about this wine. The palate is velvety and chocolatey rich with a layer of meaty savouriness, but it is the enduring spice and sweet fruit that is perhaps its most alluring strength."

92 Point Rated - Mike Bennie The Wine Front

"French and American oak frame fruit from a couple of vineyards in a ‘heartland’ kind of style.Opens with such a nostalgic aroma here; my early learnings of red wine from Australia rush at me in a posie of choc-coconut, sweet biscuit, dark-ripe berries and a dried fruit richness. Perfect in its way. So soft and slurpy in the palate, as relaxed as a rich wine can get in texture, a trill of rough-gummy tannin bossing that fruit around ever so gently. Warming, generous, but with drinkability on its side, and charming too."

91 Point Rated - Angus Hughson Wine Pilot

"As Chief Winemaker Ben Thoman points out the Northern Barossa is home to the biggest and most brooding Barossans – wines that really showcase a hot South Australian Summer with their intensely ripe fruit flavours. The wine is unsurprisingly deep in colour with ripe dark fruit aromas reminiscent of cocoa, tar and blackberry which are matched up with toasty sweet oak. It is then big and bold in the mouth – fleshy fruit and plenty of oak again with great impact and supple tannins. It is an oaky Barossan red for sure that will hit the spot for many big red fans. Match it up with a well-done Tomahawk steak for full effect."

90 Point Rated - Tyson Stelzer

"From vines planted between 1998 and 2001. Matured 16 months in mix of French, Hungarian and American oak, 59% new. A full purple hue reflects the depth of the northern Barossa, as does rich, ripe blackberry, blueberry and blood plum fruit. Firm oak tannins frame medium-term potential, concluding dry. The fruit loses its momentum on the end."

Stuart Knox 

"Deep purple everywhere on the glass. The nose has iodine and a varnish note. Sweet-and-sour fruit. Hard edge tannins, with a green acid note that jars against caramel oak sweetness. All elbows and knees."

Gold Medal

Barossa Wine Show 2021