Torbreck, RunRig, Barossa Valley

Torbreck · South Australia › Australia

Red · Shiraz Blend
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LWIN 1005077
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94 /100
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23
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97
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Taster #9420 · Apr 1, 2025
90/100
Deep red. The nose initially offered up the Viognier greeting and the aged Shiraz followed. Dark plum and blackberry. I love the probably 100+yo vine flavours. Intense flavours that begged for the steak that joined it. A big wine, showing the warm year. Quite well balanced despite this. On breathing, the oak became more evident and began to dominate. Dave Powell was not subtle with new oak in his day. This wine is a brick. Perhaps too much of everything, …
2005 vintage
Taster #4250 · Feb 17, 2025
91/100
This batch of Runrig did not taste like Runrig, no shower of dark chocolate, but got better than years before.
2005 vintage
Taster #8626 · Sep 7, 2024
96/100
Wow ! Drinking so well. A burst of fruit but supple tannins to provide the structure. In a great place but can sail on for 5+ years.
2005 vintage
Taster #8383 · Apr 30, 2024
93/100
Power, finesse and elegance. The Viognier is the secret sauce here. It gives what would have been a brute wine into something that is approachable and very refined (for a Barossa from a hot year!). Dark fruit with notes of cherry and plum on the nose, the body is earthy, sweet and bitter at the same time. There is an intensity but with superb balance and precision. Lovely tannin and acidity. Lovely long finish. Drink now or 6+ years from …
2005 vintage
Taster #7961 · Jan 10, 2024
94/100
Drink soon. Amazing right now
2005 vintage
Taster #9145 · Dec 31, 2023
95/100
Deep ruby only showing moderate development. An intense and complex nose - liquorice, spice, black fruits, blueberries and charred wood. Great harmony between fruit and savoury notes. Palate: full- body. Rich, velvety mouthfeel. Big but not overpowering. Persistent finish. Has a good 5+ years in it, probably more if well cellared. Excellent wine to see in the new year.
2005 vintage
Taster #1495 · Dec 25, 2023
Enjoyable as this wine continues to age glacially. Not memorable. To be fair it was the 6th bottle of the night , so the bar was very high to be memorable :)
2005 vintage
Taster #7099 · Sep 12, 2023
93/100
Fruit rather muted but smooth and complex. I probably would have enjoyed it more 3-5 years ago. It was good but not exceptional, so disappointing.
2005 vintage
Taster #4213 · May 15, 2023
95/100
A deep garnet colour. Expressive, intense nose of ripe cherry, black plum and tobacco. A deep brooding entry with super-ripe dark fruits, minerals, smoke, and warmed gravel towards tar/bitumen. This is complex with nuances of liquorice and fleshed out with ripe jujube fruit, exotic spices and even some old oak. Full-bodied, powerful with excellent concentration, this is scintillating stuff with those ripe flavours mingled with notes of meat, game and blueberry coupled with a flash of menthol and dried herb …
2005 vintage
Taster #2426 · May 2, 2023
95/100
Brought by my friend Christopher and had it blind. It took me just smell it to pick the grape but I was wrong with the country and year. This wine is drinking beautifully right now, medium plus body, no showing the age, no brick or decoloration on the rim, tick legs, great complexity, great finish. It went very well with a bone in New York strip and prime filet Mignon.
2005 vintage
Taster #9112 · Mar 31, 2023
97/100
Similar to prior notes after double decanting for an hour; outstanding, another great bottle, ready to drink
2005 vintage
Taster #0870 · Dec 31, 2022
95/100
Out of magnum. 2 hrs air. In a really nice spot right now. Raspberry compote/blueberry, cedar, a hard to pin down herbaceous quality, fenugreek, and yes a little meatiness. Fine but copious tannins. Alcohol tastes very much in check. Gorgeous. Score: 95. Relative to expectations: ++
2005 vintage
Taster #9421 · Dec 24, 2022
95/100
Intial score after opening and tasting and decanting before pouring 4 glasses. Had this with: Spinach and artichoke dip, asparagus wrapped in prosciutto, brisket sliders and steak tips as our Christmas Eve dine and dash. Beautiful aromatics, whote pepoer, blackberries, currant, nice finish. 97% Shiraz, 3% Viognier. Fabulous.
2005 vintage
Taster #9112 · Nov 19, 2022
97/100
Similar to prior notes after double decanting for an hour; outstanding, ready to drink
2005 vintage
Taster #2352 · Oct 22, 2022
92/100
From memory: mature, deep and complex, with fully integrated oak. Damn that was good.
2005 vintage
Taster #9112 · Jun 25, 2022
97/100
Similar to prior notes after double decanting for an hour; outstanding, another great bottle, ready to drink
2005 vintage
Taster #9112 · Apr 17, 2022
97/100
Similar to prior note after double decanting for an hour; outstanding & ready to drink
2005 vintage
Taster #9563 · Dec 26, 2021
This is one of those wines that seemed as if it would be really good, but I felt that I never quite caught it in the right spot. Licorice, vanilla, sweet tobacco, raspberry cream (this reminds me of Saint Emillion), and brambly black currants and blackberries dominate the palate, but I also find notes of lavender, sweet Indian spices (imagine the fenugreek dominated spice bowls that are offered as after dinner “breath mints” at Indian food restaurants), and chocolate all …
2005 vintage
Taster #9112 · Dec 12, 2021
96/100
Double decanted for an hour, deep ruby with a slightly light rim, dark fruits with prunes & a touch of bacon, med. tannins, long finish; outstanding & ready to drink
2005 vintage
Taster #9986 · Apr 24, 2021
95/100
consistent with notes of 1/13/2020
2005 vintage
Taster #7780 · Apr 22, 2021
91/100
This is very big, rich, creamy and quite a fruit bomb; raspberry puree, a little blackberry bramble, slight herbs note; full, rich on the palate, good dose of vanilla, super young still, but mellow and coming into its own; good lift despite the fruit wallup, quite long. Very well-made but just so big, especially compared with the 1998 which was heads and shoulders above this and all of the other Aussie wines, and which also won the group's WOTN. I'm …
2005 vintage
Taster #0905 · Oct 12, 2020
94/100
Big and bold. Slightly more resolved than say 10 years ago, but still a big full flavored wine. Chocolate covered cherries with a dollop of white pepper. Maybe at peak in another 5 years.
2005 vintage
Taster #8109 · Sep 16, 2020
93/100
'Best of Australia' Dinner (Wooloomooloo Prime, 100 Nathan Road Level 21 The ONE, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong) : Decanted for 7 hours, which was about right. Totally opaque red/black but lighter at the edges. Nose is fresh ground nutmeg and really ripe deep red fruit. Palate is rich, ripe, raisiny, jammy but sophisticated blackberry and vanilla. Almost an Amarone ripeness. Big and heady.... too young by 10 years. Very Viognier driven. A very big but deft wine and clearly …
2005 vintage
Taster #3880 · Mar 12, 2020
95/100
Not quite as huge as expected, but plenty decadent. Really well made and well balanced, one of the best wines I've had this year. Decanted 2-3 hours and maybe could have used some more time even. Seems to have plenty left in the tank too.
2005 vintage
Taster #9986 · Jan 13, 2020
95/100
deep dark berry flavor, swirled with chocolate and solid minerality - a decedent treat.
2005 vintage