This wine has been made every year since 1896. A true icon.
Suckling / Ned Goodwin MW – 97 Points. Halliday Wine Companion / Marcus Ellis 96 Points and Wine Front / Gary Walsh – 96 Points.
NG - Suckling: “This is plain gorgeous. Many may question shiraz's place in the Vale in the face of growing traction with grenache. Yet here lies ample evidence of why there is plenty to get excited about. Thoroughly impressive.”
GW – Wine Front: “I know Block 6 is always a long-term wine, but my word, this seems like one for the ages. This must be the place.”
ME - Halliday: “It’s a stunning wine reflecting confident stewardship and a sense of place. Perhaps not a wine of immediate easy pleasures, but it’s the better for it, and it will age beautifully.
- Australian Wine Companion
This release represents a profound change at this address from a culture of rich wines hewn of old vines and traditional winemaking, at least in an Australian sense, to one of earlier harvesting and a grasp for freshness. Sure, the ancient vines remain. Yet despite the palpable intensity and drive, there is a twiggy dryness, a paucity of amplitude and a generosity that is synergistic with an early harvest window. Olive and dark fruits, sure. Time may bestow further beauty.
- James Suckling
This release represents a significant change at this address from a culture of rich wines from old vines and traditional winemaking, at least in an Australian sense, to one of earlier harvesting and a grasp for freshness. Sure, the ancient vines remain. Yet despite the palpable intensity and drive, there is a twiggy dryness, a paucity of amplitude and a generosity that is synergistic with an early harvest window. Olive and dark fruits, sure. Time may bestow further beauty. I score with the benefit of the doubt in mind. Drink or hold.
