Region
Barossa Valley
Grape
Shiraz
Tasting Notes
The 2002 E & E Black Pepper Shiraz spent 18 months in French and American oak, 30% new. It is opaque purple-colored with an alluring nose of cedar, pencil lead, lavender, and blueberry. This leads to a Shiraz with good depth and grip, ripe flavors, and enough tannin to evolve for 6-8 years. Drink this well-made wine through 2015.
-92 pts by Robert Parker
Dark, juicy and profound, with layer upon layer of flavor seamlessly knit into a cohesive whole, offering dark berry, black cherry, exotic spice, black pepper and licorice that sail through the long, vivid finish. Has tremendous style, intensity and a long life ahead of it. Best from 2010 through 2022. 1,200 cases made.
-97 pts by Wine Spectator
A very fine, restrained and velvet-smooth expression of Barossa shiraz whose relatively delicate fragrance of small berry fruit, sweet smoky vanilla oak, cloves, cinnamon and white pepper exudes charming gaminess and complexity. It gradually opens to reveal a long and elegant palate whose concentrated dark fruit flavours are delivered with surprising deftness of touch, assertively but carefully offset by well-seasoned American oak. It finishes almost savoury, with a lingering core of dark fruit.
-94 pts by Jeremy Oliver