Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
With its expressive notes of espresso and black olive, this Shiraz is on the savory side, but it still carries enough plummy fruit to provide balance. It’s mouth filling and generous, while a bit of tartness on the finish serves to highlight the coffee and earth flavors.
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Wine Spectator
Distinctly spicy, with black pepper mingling with ripe blackberry and currant flavors, lingering on the lively finish and showing a fleshy texture. Drink now through 2013. 100 cases imported.
Marked by an unmistakable deep purple hue and savory aromatics, Syrah makes an intense, powerful and often age-worthy red. Native to the Northern Rhône, Syrah achieves its maximum potential in the steep village of Hermitage and plays an important component in the Red Rhône Blends of the south, adding color and structure to Grenache and Mourvèdre. Syrah is the most widely planted grape of Australia and is important in California and Washington. Sommelier Secret—Such a synergy these three create together, the Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre trio often takes on the shorthand term, “GSM.”
Occupying the tip of Western Australia’s spectacular southern coastline is a wine region of impressive natural diversity called the Great Southern. Here cool climate loving varieties like Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc grow in vineyards hugging its jagged coastlines.
Farther inland, among Great Southern's rolling hills and flatlands, a more pronounced temperature shift between day and night is perfect for the the production of exciting Riesling wines as well as impressive Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz.