Kalleske Wines Moppa Shiraz 2022
G 94
Deep crimson. Intense ripe blackberry, elderberry, stone fruit aromas with aniseed notes. Voluminous blackberry apricot, dark chocolate flavours and fine rusty firm tannins. Lovely buoyancy on the mid-palate and aniseed line. Finishes long with plentiful dark berry fruits. 14.5% alc Drink now–2034 Lone Palm Vineyard Hillside Shiraz 2022 G 94 The fruit here comes from their best vineyard at Marananga, a west-facing hillside. It spends a year-and-a-half in a mix of French and American oak. The colour is a near opaque maroon, with a nose which reveals notes of spices, cold tea, florals and lots of chocolate. Touches of coffee grinds and black fruits provide a supporting layer. This is a typical, balanced, full of flavour Barossa red, well balanced and with ultra-fine, rather velvety tannins, which will provide pleasure for at least a decade. Drink now–2034 Mirus Vineyards Ridge Block 21 Shiraz 2022 G 94 Deep crimson. Deep-set chocolate, blackberry and espresso notes. Brooding palate with graphite, liquorice and toasty oak beautifully proportioned with firm yet fine
tannins. 14.5% alc Drink 2027–2035 Mirus Vineyards Wonderground Shiraz 2023
G 94
Medium-deep crimson. Lovely warm pure blackberry, mulberry, cassis aromas with liquorice notes. Well-balanced blackberry pastille, mulberry, raspberry liquorice flavours with hints of roasted walnut and fresh long al dente grippy tannins. Modern and sleek. 14.2% alc Drink now–2028 Monteperle Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 G 94 From the Lyndoch sub-region of the Barossa Valley, this wine spends around two years in new French oak. Under cork. An opaque purple colour here, the nose exhibits the full array of attractive Barossa Cab notes – chocolate, tobacco leaves, smoked meats, leather, cassis, mudcake and much more. Big, bold, powerful and concentrated, there is oak evident here but it is finely integrated. A lingering finish with fine, firm tannins, this is the sort of wine you could easily put away in the corner of the cellar for five or six years without any problem. What you’d then find would be a warm climate Cab in fine form, full of flavour, and giving pleasure for another decade. Drink now–2034
Paulmara Estates Apotigi Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
G 94
Deep crimson. Intense redcurrant pastille, cassis, red liquorice aromas with hints of forest floor. Plushly concentrated wine with plentiful blackcurrant jam, fig, dark chocolate, liquorice flavours, fine-grained tannins and well-integrated acidity. Some tobacco leaf at the finish. 14.5% alc Drink now–2032
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