Cabernet Sauvignon
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
84
Washed out blackberry with chocolate and liquorice. A tart and unforgiving palate with tannin and acid derailing any impact of fruit with overwhelming graphite and bitter earth. It will certainly...
Shiraz
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
88
I always like the packaging of 3 Rings and must say that they do a pretty good job crafting a Barossa Shiraz at an RRP of $16. The wine won't...
Shiraz
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
88
A plummy nose with some sultry savoury tones and vanillin lines from American oak. The palate is soft and approachable with plenty of primary fruit that fill the mouth, ok...
Shiraz
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
94
The nose opens with a swathe of vanillin oak that is accompanied by crushed blue fruits that provides lovely aromatics to begin. The palate shows impressive balance, with the 2016...
Other Red
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
90
Savoury, structured, brooding; all good words to describe the variety and this wine. There is an earthen note at its core with a foreboding tannin structure the builds and...
Grenache
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
91
There is a lot to like here, on the nose there are ripe strawberries and plum fruits with a charcuterie and earthen edge. The palate has some herbaceous crunch but...
Chardonnay
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
94
Light golden in colour, the nose is dominated by generous stone fruits with a matchstick and flint lift that is well balanced. There is white peach...
Shiraz
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
94
Extended ageing in new French oak has provided a wine of impressive pedigree. Oak can only work when there is the fruit to carry it, which this wine has in...
Merlot
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
95
Aged for close to a decade before release. The colour is quite remarkable with a slight purple hue maintained by the wines; there is a nose...
Riesling
PE
Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
93
Granite Hills are one of the pioneering producers in the Macedon Ranges with the vineyard nearing 50 years in age, the wines are very good across the board, but they...