Gritty, herby drought year wine whose sweet, relatively simple cooked berry and confection flavours have reasonable intensity and mouthfeel, but are slightly overawed by sinewy firm extract.

Brilliant, beautifully balanced, focused and supple shiraz, easy to enjoy now but ideally locked away for twenty years. Deep, musky and perfumed, its spicy and accentuated cassis, plum and blueberry shiraz flavours are balanced by chocolate/cedary oak and fine, tight-knit tannins. It’s powerful, yet fine and seamless, with absolutely nothing sticking out where it shouldn’t.

Marvellous ripe and luscious, but superbly measured shiraz, steeped in heady aromas of briary small red and black berry fruit and enhanced by a measured maturation in smoky chocolate/vanilla oak. A velvet-smooth and creamy palate presents layer upon layer of ripe cassis, plum and red berry fruit, punctuated by the musky white pepper and licorice flavours of old Barossa vines. Beautifully balanced, and not a dead grape in sight.

Caught somewhere between the rich, old-fashioned Australian ‘burgundy’ style of softness, roundness and structure, and the contemporary Barossa shiraz of intensity, ripeness, warmth and polish, this exceptional wine is unashamedly concentrated and densely packed with deep, dark spicy fruit. It’s warm and spirity, with a heady, spicy and peppery bouquet steeped in aromas of dark plums, cassis and blackberries, backed by chocolate/walnut oak and meaty undertones of game and leather. Its succulent, creamy palate is deeper than an ocean trench, saturated with vibrant dark fruit flavours, spice and sweet coffee/mocha oak. Framed by fine, velvet-smooth tannins, it’s a near-perfect example of the popular expression of super-ripe Barossa shiraz.