Critics Average score from professional wine critics and publications.
89
/100
Reviews
4
professional
Vintages
1
2005
Sparkling
89/100
Shiraz
NV
Community Reviews
66
Reviews
89.0
Avg Score
90
Highest
Taster #1056
· Dec 22, 2023
88/100
Full marks for complexity. A chameleon of a wine. One sip it's savoury shriaz with green notes, next it's medicinal (throat lozengers). Quite an oddity. Negligible fizz. Noticeable dosage.
2005 vintage
Taster #3620
· Jan 8, 2023
Cork, 13% alc. Still a bright and dark mahogany red. Not much fizz; in fact, it was a struggle to pull the cork out by hand. Aromas of blackberry, graphite, tobacco, lifted blueberry, spicy oak, undergrowth, and turned soil. Retains some tannic grip on the palate, but the overall impression is of fruit sweetness, or more likely the dosage, which was apparently by fortified Shiraz. The wine floods the palate with spiritous, sweet, slippery, ripe fruit. Opinion: Pretty powerful by …
2005 vintage
Taster #1056
· Jul 13, 2022
89/100
This bottle low on fizz. Good but not memorable
2005 vintage
Taster #1056
· Aug 24, 2017
90/100
Crowd pleaser. Great character even if the dosage is a bit prominent. Great potential. {13%, cork}
2005 vintage
Taster #1056
· Feb 5, 2017
89/100
Fine sparkling shiraz but the dosage is still too prominent on nose and palate. Needs to dry out a bit, and develop aged shiraz complexity. Will the dosage ever fade, I don't know. 13% ABV, sealed with cork.
2005 vintage
Taster #2994
· Mar 10, 2012
(Tasting at Ashton Hills) Light cherries with a little leather and earthy sweetness. Well balanced.
2005 vintage