Wine & Spirit Insider Annual 2023

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189 TASTED 122 AWARDED NEW RELEASES A strong, solid and consistent class of New Release wines with the highlights being SAUVIGNON Ten Sisters the cabernet and blends class, but also good examples across all varietals. BLANC & Single Vineyard BLENDS Marlborough New SPARKLING Field Day Wine Co. RIESLING Bellarmine Select Zealand Sauvignon Monterra McLaren Pemberton Riesling 15 TASTED Blanc 2022 11 TASTED Vale Sparkling 13 TASTED 2022 HHHH 94pts 10 AWARDED HHHH1/2 97pts 7 AWARDED Shiraz NV 7 AWARDED A sweeter style with A very solid and Snow peas and herbs HHH 91pts honeyed citrus aromas varietally aromatic obvious on the nose A consistent class of A riper style with park A very good group of and pretty marmalade- bracket of mixed with hints of tropical clean well-made wines. pastille and licorice wines with the best like flavours with good styles. fruit. Very intense elements on the nose reflective of a good level of acid. $27 and persistent line of Clover Hill Wines and palate. $30 vintage. There were Kirrihill Wines Catalina Sounds passionfruit flavours Noir En Bois Sorby Adams Wines just a handful that Regional Series Marlborough with a soft acid finish. Lebrina Tasmania Mytikas Single showed unbalanced Clare Valley Sauvignon Blanc $18 Sparkling Vineyard Adelaide sweetness. Riesling 2022 2022 HHHHH 98pts Lobethal Road Pinot Noir NV Pinot Chardonnay HHH1/2 92pts An aromatic intensity Adelaide Hills HHHH1/2 96pts NV HHH 91pts Precious Little Limes and nettles lift of passionfruit Sauvignon Blanc Yeasty autolysis A subtle nuttiness to Wine Clare Valley off the green nose. fragrances lift off the 2022 HHHH 94pts obvious on the nose the nose and a crunchy Riesling 2022 Sweet entry to the nose with great depth Delicate perfumed/ and showing a nice toasty character to the HHHH1/2 97pts palate with a crunchy and persistence of floral aromas with bready lift. Palate offers palate. $30 A delicacy of floral/rose acid finish. $25 varietal flavours laced a pure passionfruit a big mouthful of citrus REWILD petal fragrances with Singlefile Limited with a high level of driven palate and flavours with nice oak Sustainably Made a mineral-like thread Release The Pamela slate-like acidity. $27 great acidity. $25 in support. $50 Murray Darling running through and Porongurup Palliser Estate Prosecco 2022 good intensity of green Riesling 2022 HHH Martinborough Majella HHH 91pts citrus flavours on a very 91pts Sauvignon Blanc Coonawarra Bright fresh and vibrant pure tight palate. $25 Pretty lemon curd-like 2022 HHH1/2 93pts Sparkling Shiraz wine with slightly aromas with a tight Pungent passionfruit 2021 HHHH 94pts sweet Muscat-like fruit Palliser Estate minerally floral/lime bouquet leads to a A lighter drier style characters. $10 Martinborough palate. $45 long, fine and lingering with a complexity of Sorby Adams Wines Riesling 2022 Millon The citrus driven palate. Christmas cake-like Gudilly Single HHHH 95pts Impressionist Eden $31 NZ characters, some Vineyard Adelaide Steely nose with Valley Riesling Marisco bottle age and leesy Sparkling Shiraz attractive lime-like 2022 HHH 90pts Vineyards The elements. $40 NV HHH 90pts characters and good A bright citrus lift to the Ned Skyscraper Aromatic sweet plum intensity of citrus nose with lean lemon Marlborough Taltarni Dynamic fragrances with sweet flavours with a flavours on a super Sauvignon Blanc Victoria Cuvée and youthful floral warming finish. $29 NZ clean palate. $18 2022 HHH1/2 92pts Rosé NV flavours. $30 A leaner greener style HHH 91pts Skillogalee Clare that is layered with Lifted strawberry-like Valley Riesling citrus, passionfruit and bouquet with a soft 2022 HHHH 95pts nettle-like elements. and flavoursome red Delicate lifted €19 EU fruit palate. $26 perfumed bouquet Bunkers Wines with lovely intensity Lefthanders and persistence Margaret River of citrus flavours. Sauvignon Blanc Excellent acidity. $30 Semillon 2022 HHH1/2 92pts Punchy lemon/melon aromatics with a lean and crunchy citrus palate. Great Summer drink. $20 Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2023 W I N E S TAT E 127

NEW RELEASES Flowstone Taylors Taylor Made Zilzie Wines Flowstone Clarence Hill Green Marisco Vineyards Margaret River Adelaide Hills The Source Fiano Margaret River Label Adelaide Hills The Ned Sauvignon Blanc Pinot Gris 2022 2022 HHH 91pts Chardonnay 2020 Chardonnay 2021 Marlborough Rosé 2021 HHH1/2 92pts HHH1/2 92pts A tightly wound wine HHHHH 98pts HHH 91pts 2022 HHHH 94pts Interesting fumé style; Smells of spicy pears with nutty/apple Attractive spicy oak A deep golden Fragrant cherry a complexity of green -tastes of strawberries. characters and green obvious on the nose old school style aromatics with melons, vanillin oak Has a silky texture and apple-like acidity. $14 with good depth of chardonnay that’s all strawberry-like flavours with barrel ferment mouthcoating acidity. classy flavours in buttery and toasty. $40 edged with nice savoury notes. $36 $28 Precious Little the malty/savoury elements. Easy drinking! Wine Adelaide Hills spectrum on a vibrantly Lobethal Road $19.99 NZ Zilzie Wines Millon The Gruner Veltliner fresh palate. Oaky on Bacchant Adelaide Bunkers Wines Selection 23 Impressionist Eden 2022 HHH 91pts the finish. $40 Hills Chardonnay Windmills Margaret Sauvignon Blanc Valley Pinot Grigio Lifted floral fragrances Eight at the Gate 2021 HHH 91pts River Rosé 2022 2022 HHH 91pts 2022 HHH 91pts with good intensity of Family Selection A straightforward HHH 91pts A riper, flavoursome A savoury wine with Granny Smith-like apple Wrattonbully somewhat restrained Nicely textured style with defined a subtle spicy lift and flavours. $25 Chardonnay 2021 wine of green apples wine with a savoury varietal characters and nicely textured pear/fig HHHH 94pts and peaches. $45 combination of a silky texture. $10 palate. $18 RedHeads Adelaide A nicely textured well beetroot and red fruit Hills Gruner balanced wine with Clover Hill characters. $20 McGuigan Taylors The Hotelier Veltliner 2022 layers of spicy oak, Wines Idiom Zilzie Wines Mastercraft Padthaway Pinot HHH 91pts stonefruits and pretty Single Vineyard Butterfly Kiss Rosé Adelaide Hills Gris 2022 HHH A complex layered flinty elements. $38 Lebrina Tasmania 2022 HHH 91pts Sauvignon Blanc 91pts nose and good citrus Lobethal Road Chardonnay 2021 Lifted strawberry 2022 HHH 91pts An intensity of floral/ driven flavours with Adelaide Hills HHH 91pts bouquet and a nicely An herbaceous/green melon fruit with warm herbal nuances. $25 Chardonnay 2022 A solid wine with pure balanced strawberry pea bouquet and tropical notes and good HHH 91pts lime aromas that are and cream palate. nice citric drive to the acidity. $18 RedHeads Oak driven style with echoed on a bright $20 lightweight palate. $25 Langhorne Creek some nectarines, herbs lively palate. $50 Swings & OTHER Viognier 2022 and spices and plenty Roundabouts Taylors Jaraman WHITE HHH 91pts of acid. $25 Taltarni Dynamic Margaret River Adelaide Hills BLENDS & Good varietal Ulithorne Dona Victoria Rosé 2022 Sauvignon Blanc VARIETALS characteristics of Blanc McLaren Chardonnay 2020 HHH 91pts 2022 HHH 91pts honeyed apricots Vale Chardonnay HHH 91pts Iridescent pink wine Bright citrus nose with 8 TASTED with a nice phenolic Viognier 2022 A subtlety of melon with well-balanced an herbaceous lift 6 AWARDED balance. $25 HHH 91pts fruit, lemon butter, oak sweet musky/ and a tight acid driven A well-made wine of and aged secondary strawberry characters. palate. $28 A consistent group of Skillogalee green apples, apricots characters. $26 $24 interesting varietals. Clare Valley and honey with a dash Skillogalee Clare PINOT GRIS/ “Winemakers are Gewurztraminer of spices. $30 ROSÉ Valley Rosé 2022 GRIGIO taking much more 2022 HHH 91pts HHH 91pts interest in these A pretty perfumed 12 TASTED A super clean crowd 7 TASTED alternative varietals lift to the nose with 6 AWARDED pleaser of a wine 4 AWARDED - and it shows,” a Turkish Delight-like that’s all red fruits and observed one judge. flavour profile. $34 “In the main these marshmallows. $28 True varietal characters could be described obvious here from Singlefile CHARDONNAY as pink and simple,” those recommended Small Batch & BLENDS suggested one judge. wines and offering Mount Barker Less light salmon- good drinking. Vermentino 2022 16 TASTED coloured wines this HHHH1/2 96pts 8 AWARDED time. “The best Lobethal Road Flinty fruity aromatics had nice freshness, Adelaide Hills with nice peppery Generally, the acid drive and some Pinot Gris 2022 notes and great length 2022 wines were, complexity,” said HHH1/2 93pts to the silky-smooth disappointingly, just too another. A restrained palate with a good level young but there were uncomplicated style of mouth-watering some nice ‘20 and ‘21 Palliser Estate with lifted citrus/floral acidity. $35 vintage wines showing Martinborough characters and silky well-managed ageing Rosé 2022 mouthfeel. $25 complexity. HHHH1/2 97pts The herbal nose has some grassy notes and the delicate nicely textured palate has sweetness, tannins and acid in perfect balance. It’s got personality! $32 NZ 128 W I N E S TAT E Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2023

wine & spirit insider tasting OTHER RED RedHeads Barossa GRENACHE & Zonte's Footstep PINOT NOIR Palliser Estate BLENDS & Valley Mataro 2021 BLENDS Love Symbol Martinborough VARIETALS HHH1/2 92pts McLaren Vale 9 TASTED Pinot Noir 2021 Brooding oak driven 10 TASTED Grenache 2022 5 AWARDED HHHH1/2 96pts 10 TASTED style with bright spicy 8 AWARDED HHH 91pts The younger wines Plum fruit aromas 8 AWARDED plum fruit characters on Ripe vibrant berry/ here were either mingle with toasty nose and palate. $25 Always a variety that cherry style with showing early oak and the fleshy Another solid Tempus Two produces solid results. raisined notes and development or were palate exhibits lovely “other” class. “This Copper NSW “Some of the ’22 some tannic grip. $30 over extracted but cherry flavours sitting flight shows that Graciano 2022 vintage wines are still Blackbilly Old the 2021s were a under the rich vanillin winemakers now HHH 91pts a bit young and will Vine McLaren Vale consistent group that oak with nice earthy have much more Blackcurrant characters improve with age,” said Grenache 2021 performed well. Pick nuances. $62 NZ understanding of the on the nose with a one judge. “With the HHH 91pts these! Taltarni Dynamic different varietals floral lift and a super older blends showing Spicy oak obvious on Victoria Pinot Noir focussing on their sweet palate. $30 what can be done.” the nose with a dense Nanny Goat 2021 HHHH 94pts unique characters. Zonte's Footstep savoury fruit flavour Vineyard Central A pinot with delicate Violet Beauregard Taylors The Hotelier profile. $30 Otago Pinot Noir earthy red berry fruit, Reschke R-Series Langhorne Creek Wrattonbully Blackbilly McLaren 2021 HHHHH 98pts some subtle spicy oak, Limestone Coast Malbec 2022 Grenache Shiraz Vale Grenache A purple wine with nice grippy tannins and Malbec 2022 HHH 91pts Mourvedre 2022 Shiraz Mourvedre a lifted cranberry- a good line of acid. $26 HHH1/2 93pts A fruit driven style with HHHH1/2 96pts 2021 HHH 91pts like bouquet and a Singlefile Single Very young wine with sweet red fruit nose An elegance of Old school style blend complexity of dark Vineyard Mount a floral cherry nose and and dense savoury floral berry aromas with dark chocolate cherry and mocha Barker Pinot Noir jubey fruit/forest floor flavours. $30 with a super clean and rich liqueur-like flavours with fine oak 2022 HHH1/2 92pts flavours. Needs time! Lobethal Road varietal palate that is characters. $30 tannins that linger Pretty forest floor $20 Adelaide Hills uncomplicated and Tir na NÓg across the palate. $42 fragrances with gamey Tempranillo 2021 well balanced with little McLaren Vale notes and classic Precious Little HHH 91pts oak influence. $18 Grenache 2021 stewed strawberry Wine Barossa Lifted floral fragrances HHH 91pts flavours. $35 Valley Nero with subtle cola notes BVWC Gravel Track A mid weight wine that Nepenthe Pinnacle D'Avola 2021 and a spicy green apple Barossa Valley is all blueberries and Adelaide Hills HHH1/2 93pts palate. $25 Grenache Shiraz cherries with meaty Pinot Noir 2021 Cherry berry nose Curtis Small Batch Mataro 2020 elements. $45 HHH 90pts with a meaty element SA Durif 2021 HHHH 94pts Manser 100-Year- Some attractive forest and medium weight HHH 90pts Dark brooding Old Vines McLaren floor/red berry varietal palate with grippy Big rich deep purple aromas of plums and Vale Grenache characters here with tannins. $30 number with dark berry licorice with juicy 2021 HHH 91pts nice soft tannins. $30 fruits and silky-smooth stewed rhubarb-like Soft and supple crowd Field Day Wine tannins. $80 flavours and caramel pleaser with loads Co. Colab and sweetness. $25 of oak on top of the Bloom Fleurieu cherry cola fruit. $65 Montepulciano Longhop Old Vine 2021 HHH1/2 92pts Adelaide Plains A big full ripe wine Grenache 2022 with dark blue fruit HHH 91pts characters, grippy Luscious red fruit nose tannins and drying and softly textured finish. $25 plum palate with a big tannic finish. $25 JUDGES Brett Smith Adam Clay Matt O'Leary Winemaker at Peter Lehmann Winemaker for Pirathon Chief winemaker for Savitas wines in the Barossa Valley. Wines. Previously winemaker Wines in the Barossa Valley. Associate judge at the for Penfolds, Lindemans Formerly Senior Winemaker for Barossa wine show and small and Taylors. Has completed Wolf Blass Wines. Judge at the winemakers shows (QLD). vintages at Marchesi de Barossa wine show. Panelist at Has completed AWAC course. Frescobaldi in Chianti and the Advanced Wine Assessment Previously a winemaker at Pellegrin in California. Judge Course. Lindemans and Penfolds. Has at the Alternative Varieties vintaged in California. show Cairns, Queensland Wine Awards and Clare Valley wine show. Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2023 W I N E S TAT E 129

NEW RELEASES MERLOT Bec Hardy Devitt & Moore Schoolhouse Briar Ridge Big SHIRAZ & Pertaringa Rifle William Pile Headmaster Bully Wrattonbully BLENDS 4 TASTED & Hunt McLaren Coonawarra Coonawarra Cabernet 3 AWARDED Vale Cabernet Cabernet Cabernet Sauvignon 2020 42 TASTED Sauvignon 2021 Sauvignon 2020 Sauvignon 2020 HHH 91pts 26 AWARDED Three very nice HHHH1/2 97pts HHHH 94pts HHH1/2 92pts A full-bodied wine examples here all Poised and fragrant A complex deep Dark and powerful that’s a mix of choc A very solid class from the Coonawarra with lifted blackcurrant purple wine with minty blackberry mint and forest floor with some excellent showing that a region aromatics and a loads of personality bouquet and ripe fleshy varietal characters. $40 results across different that produces great nicely structured and smelling of dark sweet oak derived Clarence Hill Red styles ranging from cabernet can also seamlessly balanced berries with lifted berry flavours. $55 Label McLaren cool climate vibrant show off merlot well. palate bursting with flavours. $75 Margarey Lane Vale Cabernet wines to the rich, ripe black olives and Reschke Bos Coonawarra Sauvignon 2019 and tannic old school Margarey Lane blackcurrants. $40 Coonawarra Cabernet HHH 91pts versions. “However, Coonawarra Merlot Kies Family Wines Cabernet Sauvignon 2020 A flavoursome there were a few 2019 HHHH 94pts The Suit Barossa Sauvignon 2015 HHH1/2 92pts combination of young simple wines Highly aromatic bright Valley Cabernet HHHH 94pts Attractive green olive blackcurrant, green showing early matured blackberry bouquet and Sauvignon 2020 Cedar fragrances with and plum varietal fruit olive and meaty characters and a few a crunchy red licorice HHHH1/2 97pts a violet lift and nicely nose and a maturing and elements. $40 that were bordering on palate with a subtle A perfumed red currant balanced chocolate/ complex palate. $70 Curtis Cavaliere porty,” said one judge. use of oak. $70 bouquet with a vibrant mocha palate with soy- Nightfall Leo McLaren Vale “The ’21 vintage, line and length of like notes. $50 Coonawarra Cabernet with its long ripening Schoolhouse Block fleshy mint chocolate Margarey Cabernet Sauvignon 2019 season, produced D1 Coonawarra varietal flavours Lane Glenroy Sauvignon 2020 HHH 91pts wines with finesse Merlot 2019 and some powerful Coonawarra HHH1/2 92pts A persistent and vibrancy and a HHHH 94pts tannins. $50 Cabernet Attractive blueberry concentration of few of the older wines Showing a good core Bec Hardy Sauvignon 2013 aromas with violet plums, chocolate showed they still had of Dutch licorice-like Pertaringa Tipsy HHHH 94pts nuances and a mix of and mint with some good fruit depth with characters here with Hill Blewitt A vibrant and fleshy cranberry and licorice maturity evident. $70 strong oak overtones.” some blackberry Springs Cabernet cabernet with a minty flavours. $120 Reschke Vitilus notes and menthol Sauvignon 2020 lift and silky smooth Zilzie Wines Coonawarra Taylors Jaraman nuances. $55 HHHH1/2 96pts dark savoury fruit Butterfly Kiss Cabernet Clare Valley A rich and flavoursome flavours. $115 Cabernet Sauvignon 2015 McLaren Vale Devitt & Moore riper style of cabernet Devitt & Moore Sauvignon 2022 HHH 91pts Shiraz 2021 William Pile with a brooding density Captain D. Bruce HHH 91pts A nicely aged chocolaty HHHHH 98pts Coonawarra Merlot of blackcurrant and Coonawarra Blueberry bouquet with wine still showing A bright and vibrant 2019 HHH 91pts choc-mint characters Cabernet a cola lift. Silky palate some freshness and wine with plenty of Menthol/forest floor and a good weight of Sauvignon 2013 with simple sweet fruit vitality. $32 “personality!” The nose and cola/oak-like ripe tannins. $100 HHHH 94pts flavours. $20 Reschke Bull red plum aromas lift flavours. “Loads of Zilzie Wines Like a rich warm rum Claymore London Trader Coonawarra off the nose with red personality!” $75 Bulloak Cabernet and raisin chocolate Calling Cabernet Cabernet Merlot currants and cherries Sauvignon 2022 bar with cigar box Malbec 2021 2020 HHH 90pts filling the mouth with CABERNET & HHHH 94pts oak characters and a HHH 91pts A dense core of choc flavour. $34 BLENDS Simple young and clean mature leathery edge. Lifted blueberry nose mint varietal fruit with with a blueberry and $120 with menthol nuances lingering oak and Manser Block 4 31 TASTED blackberry varietal profile Reschke Bull and delicious chocolaty upfront tannins. $25 Adelaide Hills 23 AWARDED and a nice fine tannin Trader Coonawarra flavours. $22 Shiraz 2021 backbone. $10 Cabernet Millon Estate HHHH1/2 97pts A strong consistent Devitt & Moore Sauvignon 2020 Barossa Cabernet A nice cool climate class – as to be Sunderland HHH1/2 92pts Sauvignon 2021 shiraz with lifted expected! “Good to Limestone Smells of black HHH 91pts peppery red fruit see not too many Coast Cabernet pastilles and violets A fleshy complexity of fragrances and a red overripe or over oaked Sauvignon 2020 with rich cherry cola dark ripe fruit and cigar plum and berry flavour wines,” noted one HHHH 94pts flavours and grainy box-like oak. $27 profile. Good acid line judge. “These all A sweet mix of Ribena/ tannins. $25 Margarey Lane and grippy tannins. $65 showed good varietal blackberry-like aromas Kies Family Wines Limestone characters with the and a palate rich with Chaff Mill Barossa Coast Cabernet older wines still holding fleshy plums and Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2020 up well.” grippy tannins. $36 Sauvignon 2020 HHH 91pts HHH1/2 92pts A subtlety of plums Slight herbal notes to on the nose with a the spicy nose and good violet lift and a ripe persistence of choc blackcurrant palate. $35 mint-like flavours. $35 130 W I N E S TAT E Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2023

wine & spirit insider tasting Kirrihill Wines Longhop Old Vine Claymore Dark Curtis Ancestor Best of BEST VALUE BUYS 2022 - All under $20 Regional Series Adelaide Plains Side of the Moon McLaren Vale Clare Valley Shiraz 2021 Shiraz 2021 Shiraz 2020 Mike Press Single Vineyard Shiraz 2021 HHH1/2 92pts HHH 91pts HHH 91pts Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir 2021 HHHH1/2 96pts Dark warm and Firm and warm with An oak driven wine Intense herbaceous cherry bouquet An attractive elegant brooding wine with subtle blue fruits laced with ripe plum fruit with a ripe red/black flavour profile. wine bright with fruit cake-like aromas with rich malt/chocolate pushing through and “A typical Aussie style of pinot.” fragrant floral aromas and dark plum characters. $25 some floral notes. $180 $17.99 laced with dark berries flavours. $25 Kimbarra and good varietal fruit Sidewood Estate Grampians Shiraz Devitt & Moore Mike Press Wines weight on the fine Adelaide Hills 2021 HHH 91pts William Pile Phone: 0409 092 485 tannic palate. $19 Shiraz 2021 An attractive fleshy Barossa Valley Email: [email protected] Bec Hardy HHH1/2 92pts wine with dark peppery Shiraz 2018 Web: www.mikepresswines.com.au Pertaringa Over Intense red fruit nose fruit, a savoury edge HHH 91pts The Top McLaren and a leaner cool and soft tannins. $30 Smells of plums and BEST OF BEST VALUE WINES Vale Shiraz 2021 climate style of palate Inner City tobacco with similar OF AUSTRALIA AND HHHH1/2 96pts with slight herbal Winemakers flavours and a quantity A big rich and nuances. $26 Indenture Hilltops of grippy tannins. $85 $U2N0D&ERNEW ZEALAND interesting style Sidewood Old Shiraz 2021 (NZ $25 & UNDER) “glowing” with dark China Hand HHH 91pts Lights Valley berries, black currants, Adelaide Hills Some savoury meaty Colonel Barossa black olives and a Syrah 2021 elements to the blue Valley Shiraz 2016 hint of licorice. Nice HHH1/2 92pts fruit nose with a nice HHH 91pts chewy concentration of Spicy cool climate wine flavour profile. $38 Mature leathery edge tannins. $40 with a minty/eucalypt Field Day Wine Co. to the lifted plum fruit Manser One Mad nose and a persistence Monterra Reserve varietal characters. Moment McLaren of cherry flavours. $50 Barossa Shiraz Nice soft tannins. $120 Vale Shiraz Taylors The Hotelier 2021 HHH 91pts Grenache 2021 Padthaway Shiraz Lifted red licorice Devitt & Moore HHHH 94pts 2020 HHH1/2 92pts bouquet and a tightly Sunderland A vibrant cherry An elegant shiraz with coiled cranberry fruit Limestone Coast liqueur-like bouquet pretty, sweet plum fruit driven palate. $45 Shiraz 2020 and a warm and characters at the riper Schoolhouse HHH 90pts rounded red cherry end of the spectrum. Block A2 Sarsaparilla-like aromas and plum palate. $35 $18 Coonawarra Shiraz and a maturing red Field Day Wine Co. Kies Family Wines 2021 HHH 91pts fruit palate with fine Monterra Reserve Klauber Block Good weight and tannins. $36 McLaren Vale Barossa Valley concentration of Shiraz 2021 Shiraz 2020 blue fruits and toasty FORTIFIEDS HHHH 94pts HHH1/2 92pts oak with some soft Dark brooding plum Mature blackcurrant tannins. $55 1 TASTED fruit fragrances and varietal fruit with pencil Margarey Lane 1 AWARDED ripe plum palate with shavings-like oak. Ready Coonawarra Shiraz some subtle sweet to drink now! $35 2021 HHH 91pts A nice, interesting, vanillin oak. $45 Kies Family Wines Slight raisined fortified style featured Devitt & Moore Dedication Barossa character to the here. William Pile Valley Shiraz 2020 dark fruit nose with Coonawarra Shiraz HHH1/2 92pts some soft sweet fruit Carmine's Wines 2021 HHHH 94pts Softly textured wine flavours. $70 Neil's Patch Bright aromatic with delicate lifted Taltarni Dynamic Adelaide Foothills red fruit nose and blue and briary fruit Victoria Shiraz V.P. Shiraz 2013 a seamlessly silky- and powerful oak Grenache HHH1/2 92pts smooth palate alive tannins. $55 Mourvedre 2020 “More like an aged with ripe plum Lights Valley HHH 91pts tawny,” thought one flavours. $75 Surveyor General Chocolaty edge to the judge. Nice spiciness Lobethal Road Barossa Valley plummy nose. Fleshy and good use of oak. Adelaide Hills Shiraz 2018 in the mouth with good Drink now. $75 Shiraz 2021 HHH1/2 92pts acid line. $26 HHH1/2 92pts A flavoursome mix of Lifted peppery blue plums, blackcurrants, fruit fragrances, deep dark chocolate and briary fruit palate and olives with chewy subtle savouriness. $25 tannins. $80 Wine of the Year Awards Annual Edition 2023 W I N E S TAT E 131

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