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4 STARS
Winestate Magazine
Year: 2013
Editorial: "Spicy plum fruit and chocolaty oak on the nose and a dense and brooding fruit driven palate. This is one for the cellar. 5+" (McLaren Vale, Langhorne & Fleurieu Tasting, 2010 Vintage)
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90 POINTS
Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Year: 2012
Editorial: "100% American oak, and sometimes, I don’t mind a bit of the old baroque. Blackberry nip, toasted coconut and nougat, mint, sage and spice – this is rich, showy and more than a little come hither. Full bodied with a flood of sweet black fruit and oak, plenty of depth and fine grained tannin. About as subtle as a brick, but honest in its own way. A bit like having a liquid Bounty Bar, with a sprinkle of salt." (2010 Vintage)
Reference: www.winefront.com.au
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GOLD MEDAL
2012 Mundus Vini Wine Show
Year: 2012
Editorial: (2010 Vintage)
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SILVER MEDAL
2012 Decanter World Wine Awards
Year: 2012
Editorial: (2010 Vintage)
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SILVER MEDAL
2012 International Wine Challenge
Year: 2012
Editorial: "Hedonistic luscious nose. Rich, exotic plum and graphite flavours and textures." (2010 Vintage)
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"power-packed red"
Ross Noble, Mount Barker Courier
Year: 2012
Editorial: "The Dowie Doole Cali Road Shiraz is from fruit only used in such outstanding years as 2010. This single vineyard 2010 shiraz is a power-packed red with generous flavours from the fruit and two years in new American oak. Roast beef, please." (2010 Vintage)
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"rich single vineyard McLaren Vale pleaser"
John Fordham, Sunday Telegraph (Sydney)
Year: 2012
Editorial: "Rich single vineyard McLaren Vale pleaser." (2010 Vintage)
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"the winemaking is traditional and the resulting wine intimate and real"
Julian Coldrey
Year: 2012
Editorial: "The palate is superbly drinkable. It enters with grace and subtlety, building to a middle palate that maxes out at medium bodied and is awash with down home red and black fruits, regional earth and salty texture. Structure begins with firm, well integrated acid and transitions to grainy, loose knit tannins through the after palate; its almost 15% alcohol is nowhere to be seen. Oak is, again, a feature of the wine, albeit one that is integrated and quite delicious. What I like most about this wine is its understatement. It's just so unforced and, at the same time, shows real personality. This is the quiet guest at a dinner party who, half way through the evening, becomes the centre of attention without once calling attention to himself.
I feel like this is McLaren Vale Shiraz stripped of modernity, where the winemaking is traditional and the resulting wine intimate and real." (2010 Vintage)
Reference: www.fullpour.com
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4 Stars
Decanter Magazine, UK
Year: 2011
Editorial: "Ripe blackberry, blackcurrant, cherry, smoke, vanilla, spice, mulberry and toasty oak bouquet. Rich, full-bodied, juicy and round, with plenty of ripe fruit, lovely acidity and a good zingy, raspberry finish." (2008 Vintage)
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GOLD MEDAL
Mundus Vini International Wine Show 2010
Year: 2010
Editorial: One of Europe's biggest wine shows
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93 Points
James Halliday, 2010-2011 Wine Companion
Year: 2010
Editorial: "Dense purple-red; an intense bouquet of blackberry and dark chocolate and some oak, then a full-bodied palate with a notably soft finish, partly reflecting barrel fermentation of the last few baumes." (2008 Vintage)
Reference: www.winecompanion.com.au
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93 POINTS
Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Year: 2010
Editorial: "I opened up a raft of heavy hitters the other week to pass round at office drinks (I have a day job too, you know) and this elicited all the requisite ooooohs and aaaahsss from the big red wine fanciers.
Lavish coffee nougat oak, a touch of mint and thick, sweet ripe black fruits. It’s smooth and even lightly slippery, with a little grippy tannin, but they’re largely plump and well massaged. A little latent McLaren earthiness is hiding in the folds there somewhere too. Obvious and fulsome, yet delicious nonetheless." (2008 Vintage)
Reference: www.winefront.com.au
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5 STARS
Christopher Hayes, Eat & Drink
Year: 2010
Editorial: "Rich cherry, tobacco leaf and warm red earth combine with spicy vanilla oak in a nose- and mouth-full of very sexy McLaren Vale shiraz.Richly textured but retaining finesse, this is a great expression of the terroir and the vintage." (2008 Vintage)
Reference: www.eatanddrink.com.au
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SILVER MEDAL
Decanter World Wine Awards
Year: 2010
Editorial: (2008 Vintage)
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94 POINTS
Tony Keys, The Key Report
Year: 2010
Editorial: "Rich dark chocolate on the nose sits firmly at the front of the palate then slowly in fact very slowly unfurls itself dripping the most wonderful flavlours as it goes one rolling into the other and all combining to a greater whole 94 now more points to come and worth its $35" (2008 Vintage)
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5 STARS, Equal Top in Category
Winestate Magazine, May/June 2010
Year: 2010
Editorial: "Super-ripe blockbuster of a wine. Dark chocolate and raisined fruit on the nose and a huge concentration and length of raspberry fruit and creamy oak with a chewy oak finish. 5+ years" (2008 Vintage)
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"the ideal Dowie Doole red"
Julian Coldrey, Full Pour
Year: 2010
Editorial: "What I like about this wine is the depth and richness of its fruit. Forget reflexively fashionable words of the moment like "elegant" and "restrained" and instead revel in old school McLaren Vale Shiraz, complete with bold oak flavour and lusciously abundant fruit." (2008 Vintage)
Reference: www.fullpour.com
