2022 The Road Block Shiraz (2022)
This vineyard is distinctive and charismatic due to its expressive geology and unique meso-climate.
A muscular, athletic red that ripples with authority of ripe black and red berries, violet notes, bacon bone, clove-cedar wood seasoning and black pepper
Title: Gold Medal
Description: International Wine Challenge (IWC)
Award Date Description: 2025
Rating: 95 / 100
Title: The Real Review, Huon Hooke
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Rating: 96 / 100
Title: Wine Business Magazine, Tyson Stelzer
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Rating: 96 / 100
Title: Andrew Caillard MW
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Award Date Description: Medium deep crimson. Dark cherry, blackberry, graphite aromas with brambly notes. Fresh pure dark cherry, black berry pastille flavours, fine slinky firm bittersweet tannins and underlying cedar, touch vanilla notes. Finishes gravelly with seductive sweet fruit notes and hints of bush garrigue. A serious ultra-fine shiraz with the vigour, richness and ferruginous complexity for further aging. Drink now -2035
Rating: 95 / 100
Title: Halliday Wine Companion, Marcus Ellis
Description: From a 1.82ha block planted in '93; 20 months in French oak, with 21% new. From a cool year, there’s an agreeable refinement here, an intensity of delivery but with a compact nature, fruit flavours pristinely ripe but retaining a whisper of tart precision. Briary, brambly forest berries, raspberry pastille, tapenade and tart black cherries, reflected with a certain ease and generosity, likely from the clay soils, though underpinned with a rocky, ferrous minerality from the ironstone bedrock. It’s a finely constructed expression, and one with many years ahead of it.
Award Date Description: 2024
Rating: 95 / 100
Title: Wine Pilot, Ray Jordan
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Rating: 94 / 100
Wine Range: Single Vineyard
State: South Australia
Region: McLaren Vale
Vintage: 2022
Wine Type: Red Wine
Variety Type: Shiraz
