Shiraz Blend
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
95
This highly collectible wine is a blend of 93% Shiraz, 5% Grenache and 2% Viognier that spends close to two years in French Oak, with a considerable portion new. ...
Shiraz
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
95
The platinum label is made with grapes sourced from select vineyards within Wolf Blass's extensive vineyard holdings. The risk would be the wine is over worked but the 2005 manages...
Shiraz
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
94
The 2004 Trademark was produced by Ben Riggs and Peter Flewellyn and is a blend of two premier Australian Shiraz regions, McLaren Vale in South Australia and Heathcote in Victoria....
Cabernet Sauvignon
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
92
A mature red in colour, bricking towards the rim. The nose has classical Cabernet characters of blackcurrant, olive and dried herbs. Just enough primary dark fruits...
Cabernet Sauvignon
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
95
Alpha Crucis is produced by Chalk Hill, and is a great example of how good Cabernet can be from McLaren Vale. The nose is a dark...
Cabernet Sauvignon
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
94
An impressive wine, 22 months in new French oak, wild yeast ferment, bottled without fining and filtration. A minimal intervention wine that showcases quality fruit and oak. ...
Shiraz
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
88
A deep dark red in the glass, the nose is syrupy and sweet with confected fruit and lashings of vanillin oak. The palate has fully resolved tannins...
Pinot Noir
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
96
This wine was tasted blind amongst an impressive lineup of new and old world wines, the flinty, mineral nose made it almost instantly identifiable as top class Burgundy. It was...
Shiraz
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
89
A well made cool climate shiraz that will need considerable time to lose it's primary fruit characters and gain secondary complexity. The nose is clean and...
Pinot Noir
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
94
This wine was tasted from magnum, and undoubtedly needs time. It was tasted over an hour and continued to evolve and open up during that time. The...