Grape
Shiraz
Ratings
*Penfolds – Icon & Luxury Range
Excellent – by Langton’s Classification Australian Wine
Robert Parker 93
Jeremy Oliver 93
James Halliday 94
Wine Spectator 93
Tasting Notes
Colour : Deep red with a dark core.
Nose : A distinctly Barossa nose of dark chocolate, blueberry and a hint of liquorice. Stylish, ‘glossy’, oak provides an appealing bruleed, waxy lift.
Such stylish shiraz fruit and seductive oak instantly invokes aromatic interest.
Palate : Mouthfilling and expansive, yet at the same time contained and tightly structured. The wine is bigger and richer than the cues afforded by the
nose, and undeniably assertive and defined. A generously flavoured RWT with dark berried fruits and spice.
-by Official Website
The outstanding 2002 Shiraz RWT is a 100% Shiraz, single region
(Barossa) offering that typically spends 14 months in a combination of
two-thirds new and one-third old French oak. Expansive and rich with a
broad texture, and a complex nose of white chocolate, raspberries, black
cherries, and licorice, this spicy, rich, medium-bodied, elegant 2002
should drink well for 10-12 years.
-by Robert Parker
A very good, but very slightly over-ripened shiraz with a meaty
fragrance of blackberries, cassis and dark plums, mocha-like oak and
undertones of black pepper. Smooth and supple, it?ˉs both fine-grained
and deeply fruited, presenting sweet black berry fruits and hints of
currant tightly woven about fine, silky tannins and sweet
chocolate/vanilla oak. There?ˉs a faint suggestion of dehydration, and
the alcoholic strength of 14.5% is slightly at odds with the wine?ˉs
elegance and polish. Drink 2010-2014+.
-by Jeremy Oliver
Deep colour; lots of new French oak on
both bouquet and palate, but also plenty of dark fruits; very good
mouthfeel and texture, ripe tannins; given the benefit of the oak doubt.
Quality cork, but, surprisingly, stained.
-by James Halliday
Muted aromas, but it’s generous and jazzy in the mouth. Lively, with
blackberry, cherry and white pepper flavors remaining zingy through the
long, harmonious finish. Hints at white chocolate as the flavors linger.
Tannins are firm, but fine. Drink now through 2020. 1,625 cases
imported.
-by Wine Spectator