Region
Eden Valley
Grape
Shiraz
Tasting Notes
Medium purple-red; vanillin oak is immediately evident on the bouquet, but without subduing the smooth supple fruit, showing none of the ‘sauvage’ characters of the ’93. A lovely wine on the palate, although the oak is very evident, perhaps supporting, perhaps distracting from the fruit. A mild, dry summer with a slow start to vintage was followed by two weeks of hot weather, which ripened everything at once. Stephen Henschke described it as the year of the ‘black ferments’, and regards it as having the potential to be one of the best ever vintages.
-94 pts by James Halliday
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-93 pts by Jeremy Oliver