Supple texture with a trill of game meat, dried herb, smoky spice, earth and slate. Feels savoury from the get go, though you’ll get dark cherry, currants, sour plum and dark choc-liqourice too. Slips along the palate nicely and then finds a firming rub of gruff but appealing, sandy tannin. There’s a lift and lightness in the mix too. Sandy, freshly saw woody oak nuances perhaps a little prominent now, but the savoury nature of the wine delivers goods.

92 points, The Wine Front (September 2023)

The 2022 O’Riada Shiraz is made from fruit picked from the Clonakilla estate and other vineyards in Murrumbateman and Hall. The 2022 season was cool and long, like its predecessor, 2021. On the nose, there are notes of pink musk sticks and rose petals, blood, black cherry, pastrami and iodine. In the mouth, the wine is everything that the nose has promised—vibrant, alive, delicious, exciting and shaped by very fine pumice stone tannins. Gentle dust and brush sway through the finish. What a lovely wine. 13% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.

94 points, Wine Advocate (August 2023)