38% new French oak, 15% whole bunches. Ground coffee, ripe plum/redcurrant and blackberry flavours sweep confidently through the palate, chicory and sweet earth characters carried along for the ride. It's not flashy or necessarily seductive, but it's the most impeccable Barossa shiraz you could ever hope to find. It will mature beautifully.

95 points, Wine Companion (February 2020)

Dark brooding wine, with glimmers of raspberry, clove and toast, subdued perfume, and dried beef. It’s full-bodied, tannin is firm and tightly packed, some tobacco and toast, but kind of locked up as a young wine. Acidity is settled, and there’s something like boysenberry freshness hiding in the darkness. It’s pretty long, grainy and full to close. It feels like a wine with a big future.

94+ points, The Wine Front (May 2020)

This offers blueberry, blackberry and some red to dark-plum aromas with chocolate and tar, as well as licorice, cloves and more. The palate has a seriously luscious texture and depth of ripe blackberries and dark plums. Such smooth tannins abound here.

94 points, JamesSuckling.com (September 2020)