Pinot Noir
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
96
A light to medium red in colour, lovely spiced aromatics with black cherry, undergrowth and black tea. There is piercingly pure black and red cherry with vibrant almost crunchy acidity...
Chardonnay
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
95
A reserve release that has only been produced in 2015 and 2016 to date, and you can see why 2021 was picked as a year to release it. This is...
Shiraz
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
95
A wonderfully elegant wine that is fittingly called a Syrah with a mineral, leathery and spice laden wine quite rhone like in its stylings. Aromatics still show primary fruits of...
Sauvignon Blanc
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
94
2022 is shaping as another good year after the wonderful 2021 vintage. There is a real purity of fruit on the nose with fragrant passionfruit and guava...
Shiraz
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
90
An inky, youthful red in colour with a nose that is a touch reductive before it shows cured meats and primary fruit of plum and red cherry. The palate is...
Pinot Noir
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
94
A mix of whole berry and whole bunch in terms of fermentation and time in new and old French Oak. The aromatics give autumnal red berry fruits with understated savoury...
Chardonnay
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
94
Sidewood consistently craft some of the best value Chardonnay in Adelaide Hills. This wine shows precise cool climate fruit and as always exceptional winemaking. The nose has worked fig and...
Shiraz
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
95
Only 3250 bottles produced and the wine is made from a single Shiraz clone (savii19) that was also grown from a single vineyard. This is a stylish...
Pinot Noir
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
92
A faint salmon hue in colour, with candied red apple providing vibrant aromatics on the nose. The palate shows cherry and wild strawberry fruit set against easy going acidity. This...
Cabernet Sauvignon
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
88
A nose of liquorice all sorts, olive and blackberry fruit. The palate has a sweetness of blackberry, with tannins that are dusty yet supple. The liquorice on the nose continues...