89/100
3.5 Stars
Huon Hooke
Deep, dark red with very little brick-red in the rim, the colour in excellent shape for 25 years. There are developed tobaccoey notes overlying crushed leafy aroma, peppermint and developed berry characters to sniff, a hint of cigarbox, while the palate is lean-ish, elegantly structured and weighted, with quite good intensity and ample fine tannins, although there is just a little austerity holding it back compared to the shiraz and Malleea of the same year. The acidity is too evident, and there's a very slight dip in the mid-palate. Small quibbles as it's a very good wine, still drinking really well.
Tasted: 15/08/2021
Drink: 2021 to 2021
88 Points Robert Parker
This wine exhibits an opaque purple color, followed by a Medoc-like, herb, pain grille, cassis, and gravelly-scented nose. Medium-bodied and firm, with moderately high tannin, and outstanding purity, this wine requires 2-3 years of cellaring, and should keep for 10-15 years. The Lynn brothers, who for years supplied grapes to some of the top cuvees of Winn and John Ridoch, have begun to estate bottle their production. This is a well-made, tightly-knit wine that was extremely youthful and unevolved when I tasted it. It possesses the potential to improve in the bottle, so my rating may turn out conservative
Source: Robert Parker (Robert Parker Wine Advocate) by Robert M. Parker, Jr. June, 1998
90 Points James Halliday
Medium red-purple; there is quite sweet berry cabernet fruit on the bouquet with hints of earth and mineral, supported by well-handled oak. In the mouth flavours of sweet cassis/Ribena fruit are immediately apparent and run through towards the finish which is lifted by a touch of attractive spicy oak. Drink to 2006.
James Halliday. June, 2021