91 Points James Halliday
Sealed under screwcap. Heady, exaggerated style in some ways, but balanced and low-oaked in others. Warm alcohol is however ever-present. Dark, syrupy cherries, earth, and dried spice with a briny edge. Fine tannin has melted into the wine's warm heart, Satisfying length. A nod to elegance. Drink to 2025.
Campbell Mattinson. June, 2021
Medium to deep garnet-purple in color, the 2012 Reserve Shiraz reveals intense notes of crushed blackberries and black cherries with underlying wild blueberry, aniseed, chocolate box and Szechuan pepper hints. With a wonderful vibrancy to the fruit in the full-bodied and concentrated mouth, it displays a harmonious interplay of firm, rounded tannins and well-balanced acidity before finishing long. Drink it now to 2024+. Source: Robert Parker (Wine Advocate) February, 2014 by Lisa Perrotti-Brown