Gary Walsh from 'The Wine Front' says...

"An unusually muscular wine of  scale and impact given the producer, but one that’s well worth investigating."

Rated: 92 points

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Gary Walsh from 'The Wine Front' says...

"It’s bright and fresh with tangy fruit and mildly spicy flavours and a dry refreshing palate that runs along quite happily."

Rated: 90 points

The 2010/11 Big Red Wine Book says...

“Fresh and well weighted with good balance and length. This has all the bases of a fine wine covered.  It has lovely oak treatment too – its flavours already meshing with the grape-derived notes of blackberry, plum, menthol and fragrant pipe tobacco.  It’s medium bodied with supple fine grained tannins and a kind of drawing-room charm.  It doesn’t quite fill all the corners of the mouth, but given time to mature, we reckon it will. Lovely.”

Rated: 94 points

Gary Walsh from 'The Wine Front' says...

"Rich but controlled with some savoury flavours and a general red fruitedness, firm tannin, freshness and excellent length. Subtle mocha oak on exit. It all flows along merrily merrily - like a dream. Brilliant price for a wine of this quality."

Rated: 94 points

The 2010/11 Big Red Wine Book says...

"A classy but restrained style of wine...."

"It's medium-bodied with attractive powdery tannins and a touch of meatiness.  Personality plus, in a good way."

Rated: 91 points

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Campbell Mattinson from 'The Wine Front' says...

"Great to smell, great to drink, great to contemplate what it’s going to become. It has concentration of mulberried, blackberried flavour but really that’s not its game. Its ‘thing’ is structure, a minerally strut of tannin, tobacco-like edges and perfect form in the mouth...The wine is, simply, excellent."

Rated: 94 points

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Campbell Mattinson from 'The Wine Front' says...

"This has lots of dry, savoury tannin and a good deal of sour-sweet cherry-like flavour. There’s spicy, chocolaty, pencilly oak here too and the more it opens up the more beguiling it becomes. I wasn’t sure of this at first but after a couple of hours of sipping at it, I was loving it. It’s going to be an interesting journey to see where this wine goes as it ages."

Rated: 91 points

Gary Walsh from 'The Wine Front' says...

"Like having a fresh crisp breakfast juice in a garden full of white flowers. Nice and dry with clean acidity and a slightly flinty texture. Fine balance throughout. Finishes long and clean. A lovely stylish wine."

Rated: 92 points

Gary Walsh from 'The Wine Front' says...

"Clean, fresh and fragrant with raspberry, plum, chocolate, baking spices and a touch of gum leaf and pepper...Something of a triumph considering the vintage too."

Rated: 91 points

Campbell Mattinson from 'The Wine Front' says...

"It’s a wine of style, that’s for sure. A wine that trips to its own beat. It’s all dry chocolate and floral aromatics, matched in the mouth by a combination of oxidative sweetness and long, dry, ropey tannin, a combination that works very well. It’s low in alcohol (12.7%) but totally ripe, its sense of balance and structure judged to a tee. It’s an interesting drink young, and should be better in three years."

Rated: 90 points

Campbell Mattinson from 'The Wine Front' says...

"What a delicious wine - and more than that, it’s fine and structured and long too. The tannin management is strikingly good, all textural and ropey and elongated, and matched to the earthy, dusty, choc-cherried fruit provides both immediate impact and something to contemplate on. This is a new-ish Margaret River vineyard that has to have a big future. There’s quite a bit of acidity and quite a bit of length too, and in all ways impresses. I’d drink it young, but it will age."

Rated: 90 points