97 pts James Suckling No 13 Top 100 wines for 2024
Deep and brooding aromas of blood plums, lead pencil, cocoa, tobacco leaves, cedar and ferric earth. The palate is full-bodied with firmly integrated tannins and focused acidity giving wonderfully complex notes of mulberries, coffee beans, dried herbs and potpourri. Seriously well integrated and structured. Excellent. Drinkable now but best from 2030.
96 Points; The Real Review
Pretty and intense nose of blackcurrants, anise and violets. At first, it doesn't give away much, it's very composed and stealthy in its expression. With air, hints of iodine, pepper and bush spices arise. A bomb of flavour explodes on the palate—black olives, violets and sweet spices are framed by powdery tannins. The tannin quality is a stand-out, it's so fine yet long and sleek. This is ripe and full-bodied yet everything is perfectly jigsawed into place, nothing seems forced. In its youth, It's a touch apprehensive to reveal all, but this is a wine meant for aging. Palate staining, formidable stuff. Drink: 2023–2035
96 pts Wine Enthusiast
The “sister” wine (literally their named after sisters) to Emily's Paddock, Georgia offers supple dark berry fruit wound up with earthy spice notes like cumin, bay and ground coriander, and dried violets. The same plush berry fruit leads on the palate. Tannins are muscular but well placed, threaded with spice and warm stony mineral notes. A powerful, still-primary wine with excellent cellaring potential until 2040 at least
96 pts James Halliday's Australian Wine Companion
Georgia's Paddock is back, no longer supplemented by fruit grown by friends following some challenging vintages. Sports slightly higher alcohol than usual (15.5%), but it's carried well, managed by firm structural tannins. A youngster, it deserves a thorough slosh before serving, time to release those captive aromas and flavours of briar, blackcurrant, plum, blueberry, savoury olive and spice. Full-bodied but lively, it delivers a powerful presence in the glass, seamless and firm, dark fruited and spicy, running deep and long to the finish. Drink by 2040.
97 Points – Wine Spectator
This stunner oozes with fresh and preserved fruit flavors of blackberry, huckleberry and blueberry, followed by wave after wave of details including spices, rosemary, date-nut bread, mocha, tobacco, palo santo, salted black licorice and tapenade on a plush, creamy frame, with a long, expressive finish. Drink now through 2037
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