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95
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95
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93
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Tasting Notes
From the winery:
"Fermented in open fermenters, manually dug out and basket pressed, naturally fermented, with minimal sulphur usage. Elevaged for a further nineteen months in 100% French oak, 10% new French Oak, and 3000L French Oak Vat. Bottled unfiltered and unfined. Nineteenth continual release from the vineyard.
With the cooler vintage comes bright spice and fresh natural acid, just what we love. This wine throws vineyard aromas of mocha and spice, ladened with the richness and fullness on the palate from gentle oak. It finishes morish, delicate on the palate with a long drive and finish. with aging potential. 13.6% alc Cellar for a further 10-15 years"
Tasting Profile
- Light
- Full
- Low Tannin
- Tannic
- Sweet
- Dry
- Low Acidity
- High Acidity
Classification: Red
Variety: Shiraz
Vintage: 2023
Bottle Size: 750ml (Bottle)
Country: Australia
Region: South Australia, Barossa Valley
Alcohol %: 14.5%
Cellaring: 10-15 Years
Scores
95 / 100"95pts Dave Brookes (Halliday Wine Companion): “Shiraz sourced from the Materne family vineyard in Greenock; matured in a 3000L French oak vat and puncheons. XXXX & XXXX have been in fine form lately and this shiraz from the western Barossa is on song. It's got a real ferrous, meaty edge this year which is really appealing. Fruit all pure plum, blackberry and black cherry with hints of dried herbs, roasting game meats, earth, olive tapenade, wood spice and pressed flowers. Powdered, sandy tannins, fine, lacy acidity and a core of fruit that travels long and true on the finish.”"
- James Halliday's Wine Companion
95 / 100
"Dried violets and purple flowers, baked blueberries and mulberries - the opening is fragrant and oh-so inviting.The shape and weight are guided by the 13.6% alcohol and the flow it delivers is blisteringly good. Davidson plums, blue and purple fruits mingle with melted chocolate, black earth, twigs and floral tea. Juicy and devilishly moreish, it moves and sways about with supreme ease. The longer it sits, the more detail comes to the fore. Char, pan juices and cola cling to a captivating finish brushed with delicate spices. A long, moreish length oozes class. Brilliant stuff. Drink to ten years+"
- Q WINE
93 / 100
"The 2023 season was both cool and late by modern Barossa Valley standards, the red grapes on average picked two weeks later than the historically cool 2002 vintage, for instance. The season translates here into an elegant-but-well-fruited wine with juicy blue- and black-berried flavours woven through with twigs, spice, woodsmoke and graphite. There’s a floral prettiness evident both on the nose and in the mouth, which is part of why this wine comes across as so more-ish, though the ripe sweetness of the fruit is a key element too. That said, there’s a decent churn of grainy tannin here, so that in the end this wine feels firm and commanding."
- Campbell Mattinson
