Peter Lehmann, Mentor, Barossa Valley

Opened and served right away. Darker fruits and earthy aromas with a perfectly mature and mellow profile on the palate with enough backbone left to keep it from being soft. Decent acidity and powdery tannins with nice length. I've had several bottles of this over the years and this was the best bottle yet. Paired very well a lamb roast. I'm not a big Aussie wine fan but when it's like this it's pretty good once in a while. Excellent.

Corked.

Medium purple/red on the core rim moving to dark brown/purple rim. Sweeter nose with ripe blackberries, blue berry pie and hints of menthol. Soft and round in the mouth with chewy tannins and medium acidity. A fairly restrained Aussie red that’s drinking very well now and should hold for 2-3 years. Very good.

Spectacularly good wine. Nose resonant and powerful - cassis, plums, mint - very very deep, intense and rich. Palate even more powerful - cassis and plums and mint again but tantalising layers of other fruit - blueberry, loganberry, mulberry, wild strawberry - complex layers which keep changing. tantalising mint, herbs, eucalyptus. Beautiful balance. Ripe soft tannin. Very long aftertaste with the mint staying there until the end. The texture was silky and luxurious. The weight full but not unduly heavy. …

The bouquet was rather weedy with some eucalypt. Nothing special on the palate, but still a good wine. Should have drunk it before the Heathcote Estate Shiraz.

Dark red in color to within a cm of the rim Black cherry licorice on the nose. Strawberry and black licorice after taste with a medum finish.

Decanted 2.5 hours. Medium to deep ruby red in colour, clear throuhout. Nose of black and red fruits, eucalyptus. Medium to high acidity, medium body, firm tannins. Flavours of plum, blackberry, tobacco. 20 second finish. Drinking well now but will develope further. Open next bottle in 2011. Excellent. 91+

Wow, fabulous Aussie blend, really nice, really elegant - Dark purple, medium/full bodied with notes of plum, cherry, euchalyptus, spice and vanilla oak on the nose, very well structured with perceptible tannins initially, very smooth and feminine on the mid-palate with a medium/long finish (91 Points).

Decanted 4 hours. Nose of blueberries, dark grapes, blackberries and red twizzler. Flavours of smoke, blackberries and dark cherries. Silky mouth feel. 30 second finish. Needs 1-2 more years to settle down the acidity. 91+

dark purple in colour, loads of cassis and blackfruit on nose & palate. rich full bodied wine with decent length and integrated tannins but under-drank relative to price.

Seems to be close to its peak with well integrated tannins.

No formal tasting notes. All I remember was well-structured, rich black spicy fruit, and needed a couple of hours before performing at its best. This guy needs at least two or three more years before drinking, and I really wouldn't be surprised if it lasted eight or nine.

Opened and served right away from the decanter at room temperature. Very similar nose to the 2000 with smells of cherries and plum. Not quite as silky as the 2000, but gave flavours of plum and strawberries. Slight heat on the mid palate and finish and soft tannins. In a year or two this could be just like the 2000 is now. Again, good value at $44cdn.