- Red Wine
- Shiraz
Shiraz
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Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
96
The Greenock is one of two single vineyard wines produced by Murray Street Vineyards, the single vineyard wines look to express the characteristics of the sub-regions of Greenock and Gomersal,...
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Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
93
This was tasted alongside the 2012, and similar to a number of wines in the Tokar Estate lineup the 13's are looking the goods. Primary raspberry strap and plum is...
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Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
90
The 2012 included both destemmed and whole bunch fruit as part of the ferment, with the wine spending 15 months in barrel prior to bottling. The nose...
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Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
95
Produced from 50 + year old vines on the Greenock sub region that was cropped at 1.5 tonne per acre. The wine saw two years in French oak (56% new)...
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Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
87
A dark red in the glass, the wine takes some time to open up in the glass, when it does there is graphite and savoury characters alongside plum and cherry...
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Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
94
An attractive, floral nose with high notes of violets and the backing of satsuma plum. The wine is full and generous with dense plum and a touch...
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Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
95
The 2010 Sophia release is tightly bound and not giving much away at this stage of it's development. Dark fruits and flashes of vanillin oak on the nose are complemented...
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Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
96
A great nose of sultry olive, plum and violets that is backed by a lick of caramelised oak. This wine has commanding structure, there is a leather and olive character...
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Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
95
The Greenock release is the more brooding and savoury of the single sub-region releases in my mind when tasted side by side, the Greenock has some stalky reductive notes alongside...
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Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
91
Produced from 20 + year old vines, the wine was vilified in small fermenters using a high proportion of whole bunch prior to maturation on lees in large format oak...