Lobethal Road Bacchant Shiraz 2022
G 94
Deep ruby. A sophisticated perfume, demure yet present – black cherry, blackberry, chinotto, pink peppercorn, sage and a breath of bergamot. There is a harmony to this wine – fruit, tannin and acid evenly steered. Buoyant on the palate – flavours seem suspended as their descent is long and graceful. The finish sees a lick of salinity infused with amaro botanics. Proof to the virtues of patience – give this wine time in the glass. Pure elegance. Drink now–2030 Lobethal Road FIL-PfR Pinot Gris Pinot Gris 2024 G 94 Classy from the first sniff. Pale with a faint green tinge to the edges. Purity in the aromatics, fragrant, blossom, edging to first flush of jasmine with a faint sourdough side hustle. 100% large French barrel fermented for six months, adding lees complexity and feel, understated sophistication. 13.2% alc Drink now–2030 Longview Macclesfield Chardonnay 2023 G 94 Lucid straw. Aromatic purity, lemon in all forms (the juice, the flesh, the zest and blossom), white peach, tonic water and river stones. The subtleties of a cool vintage, the wine is taut yet with seamless glide across the palate. Initial citrus fruit and tonic botanicals ride the zephyr of gentle yet apparent acidity. Deft use of oak, reveals a light toastiness – think bread on the second setting of the toaster – that rounds out to a most pleasant, delicately saline finish. Handsome and refined. Drink now–2034 Longview Saturnus Nebbiolo 2021 G 94 Colour varietally correct. Fleshy notes to start, crushed rocks, some tarriness, properly savoury, a touch of nori sheet in the palate before a sweeter dark cherry fruit note enters, building intensity with a well-weighted matrix of tannin bringing all the elements together. Let it breathe. Pleasing finish. Promise of greater pleasures to come. 14% alc Drink now–2036 Longview The Piece Shiraz 2020 G 94 From the Longview Macclesfield estate, the flagship wine featuring a commissioned artwork label, while on the inside the wine has a sense of completeness even as you approach it, grounded in earthy notes, fruit and crumbled soil and crushed granites all threaded together, black plum flavours lifting in the finish. Big time pleasures. 13.5% alc Diam Drink now–2034 Murdoch Hill Landau Syrah 2023 G 94 Medium-deep crimson with purple hue. Beguiling perfume, musky plum, blackberry, white peppercorn, underpinned with the nostalgia of an Italian delicatessen. Light on its feet, it dances across the palate leaving with it a savoury spice imprint. Both layered and long – its understory of tannin promises something special on the horizon. A beautifully polished wine. Drink now–2034
South Australia 2024
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