97 Point Rated - Sam Kim Wine Orbit 

"Opulent and gloriously complex, the wine shows blackberry, vanillin oak, cocoa, and warm spice aromas on the nose. The palate is equally impressive with excellent concentration and persistence, complemented by plush texture and beautifully melded tannins. Mouth-filling and seamless with a superbly long, velvety finish. At its best: now to 2039."

96 Point Rated – Russell Gallagher Vino Masters

"A vineyard-driven Shiraz showcasing purity and elegance. Black cherry, mulberry, blueberry and mocha weave through a plush palate supported by fine mineral tannins. Long, balanced and site expressive. "

95 Point Rated  – Shanteh Wale Wine Pilot

"A lovely gamut of black cherries, liquorice, blackcurrant, macerated violets, cracked pink peppercorn, cedar, ylang-ylang, vanilla pod, and bay leaf. On the palate it offers the right mix of drinkability, moreish character, freshness, and puckering tannins. A savoury–herbal duality emerges toward the finish, adding a needed point of difference that keeps the interest high and the drinker engaged."

95 Point Rated - Bob Campbell MW 

"Deep-tinted Shiraz that delivers plenty of heft while maintaining a perfect balance between tannins, acidity and fruit/alcohol sweetness. The result is a delicious wine with real drinkability and the potential to develop gracefully with bottle age. A seductively silken texture is the cherry on the cake. Complex, perfectly proportioned red with a hint of spicy oak standing out from luscious ripe fruit which holds centre-stage."

95 Point Rated  - Ken Gargett Wine Pilot  

"This absolutely cracking McLaren Vale Shiraz saw maturation in new French oak barrels, sourced from the famous Troncais first in France.  This is a star of the range for me. It is assisted in coming from such a superb vintage – a year that absolutely must be well represented in every serious cellar. A bruised plum hue, the wine opens with some toasty, vanillin oak notes, but they are well handled and add to the overall impression of a cracking red. There are aromas of chocolate, coffee beans, mulberries, dried herbs, plums and licorice. A wine exhibiting regional plushness, this is quintessential McLaren Vale Shiraz. Supple and seamless, balanced and with juicy acidity, there is serious length here, with a gentle fade and lingering finish. Ten years."

95 Point Rated  - Shanteh Wale Wine Pilot 

"A treasure of a vintage brings together the black, blue and red fruit coupled with some lilac florals. This is the kind of wine you want to peer further into its depths with each sip. The richness of concentrated blackberries, hawthorn with a mulberry berry savoury quality. The palate is restrained, allowing the fruit to complement the brooding spice of tonka bean, cocoa and nigella seed that lingers on the finish. For all its ripe fruit, acidity is undulating and keeps the wine medium bodied with a ribbon of fine tannins intertwined. A beautiful wine that will continue to evolve in the cellar for another 5-6 years but on opening tonight, I would go for some slow roasted pork sliders."

94 Point Rated  – Ray Jordan Wine Pilot

94 Point Rated – Lisa Cardelli Wine Pilot

94 Point Rated - Mike Bennie Wine Business Magazine

93 Point Rated  – Asia International Wine Competition

93 Point Rated - Campbell Mattinson 

"There’s a lot of deep, inky fruit flavour here and a lot of oak as well. It’s a Shiraz with the lot. It’s soft, luxurious, flooded with sweet plum and blackberry flavours and topped with vanilla, coconut, raspberry sauce and peppercorn. Tannin has melted straight into the fruit, and the finish keeps pushing on with the flavour. If you like ‘em big, you’ll love this wine."

90 Point Rated  – Ned Goodwin

Gold Medal 

International Sommeliers Choice Awards