Tasting notes:
Inspired by the Spanish Gran Reserva style, this wine is deep ruby red in colour with intense dark cherry and smoked plum aromatics, all hinged around a complex rack of dried herbs. On the palate a fleshy black-fruit core is surrounded by a layered line of textural savoury tannins. A wine which has matured for 3 years in barrel and then 2 years in bottle before release, will continue to mature well for many more years to come.
Review:
Top 100 Wines of Australia 2024
95 points, James Suckling (Ryan Montgomery)
A large-framed wine, benefiting from extended ageing before release. Oak-derived scents of cinnamon and mocha segue to clove, licorice, peony and stewed plum, swaddled in a dusty cloak of tannin. This is a polished and powerful wine that is more about Barossa than tempranillo. Perhaps that is the point