This is a typical No.2, showing classic flinty green apple notes. This year, being a warmer vintage, there are also tropical and pear hints, while the wine still reflects the characteristic purity of the sub-region.

This is a typical No.2, showing classic flinty green apple notes. This year, being a warmer vintage, there are also tropical and pear hints, while the wine still reflects the characteristic purity of the sub-region.

2017 was a beautifully medium-bodied season in Hilltops, giving birth to a wine that captures the fragrant and spicy personality of shiraz with great detail. It entices with rose hip and white pepper over a core of red cherries and greengage plums but it’s the lingering finish that really sets it apart, structured with magnificent, finely textured tannins. Tyson Stelzer

I’ve liked a great many of the previous releases of this wine but this is my favourite of the lot. It’s a ripper. Balanced, well fruited, spice-laden, perfumed, floral and then sweetly exotic. It smells and tastes beautiful, and is so finely etched with tannin; it has everything exactly where you’d like it to be. I’d send a case of this straight into the pool room but I’d like my stash kept a lot closer to me than that and, besides, I don’t have a pool room anyway. Buy".  Rated : 94 Points Winefront.com.au

Tasting Note: A fragrant, lifted nose of red berries, dark plum, cedar wood and exotic spices instantly escape from the glass. The palate has serious depth and an intense burst of flavour but with a seamless mouth-feel pulled tight with sand-like tannin, pure fruit flavour, spice and fresh Tasmanian acidity. A wine that will partner many cuisines from light canapes through to richer slow-cooked dishes.

94 Points The Wine Front -Sweet red cherry, rose petal scents, raspberry, dried cranberry. The gist, red fruits, lots of them. There’s spice, salty liquorice and brambly-herbal things too. Medium weight in the palate, hemmed with powdery, shapely, pumice-stone-like tannins – architecture is great, the feel great, the drinking experience ultra-satsifying. The pool of fine amaro-Campari like coolness-herbiness-sour red fruits to close, the clincher. Yum. Such a lovely, sophisticated wine for the bucks." - Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)

The wine is typical Eden Valley showing amazing floral aromas of white blossom and sweet spice.The Riesling is very giving on the palate, with brown citrus notes, lime cordial, nectarine and some peach. The wine is balanced nicely and keeps on giving.

It’s another beauty. So pretty, so well fruited, so well managed as it ripples through the mouth. It tastes of peanuts and chocolate, black cherries and anise. It has a floral lift. It’s succulent. It’s another beauty Tannin is superfine. Oak is high quality and entirely positive. It needs a little time to come together but there’s no question over this wine’s quality. No hesitation in placing a ‘buy’ recommendation. Campbell Mattinson

Deepish red/purple colour with a fragrant herb, lightly spicy and charmingly floral bouquet, which is at a remove from the simple grapy styles. The wine comes into its own on the palate, where it is deliciously easy to drink with fine-grained, subtle tannins and medium-weight. Red fruits, spices, violets. Lovely wine, ready to enjoy. It's 100% Clonakilla in style. Huon Hooke

Made from 80-year-old Grenache vines, the 2017 Cirillo 'The Vincent' Grenache is a beautifully refined Barossa red wine that is vibrant and approachable, while still delivering impressive depth and length of flavour. Ideal for enjoying in the short to medium-term, this benchmark Australian Grenache offers exceptional drinking at this price.

"Semillon 70%, Sauvignon Blanc 20%, Arneis 6%, Petit Manseng 4%, with about 24 hours of skin contact. It’s one of Giles Cooke’s projects for Alliance Wine. Comes in a cute 500ml crown seal bottle. Pretty, floral, raw almond, lime, bright, juicy, chalky feel, lemon pith bitterness, a refreshing, quinine-like finish of fair length. It’s charming, but most of all, flat out delicious to drink."

Rated : 93 Points Gary Winefront.com.au

This is smoking Chardonnay, and a little smoky with it too. The struck match, almond, nectarine and citrus leads the way, then into a palate that’s singing in clear voice. Flinty, bright, juicy, almond and stuck match – finesse and power – crunch of green pear and grapefruit to close. Oak lends some spice and structural scaffolding, but feels a minor player. Magnificent. It’s one of those “Am I 95 or 96 points here?” wines, and while I used to be indecisive, I still don’t much like putting numbers on bottles."

Rated : 96 Points Gary Winefront.com.au

Barossa Shiraz. Hard to go wrong, and you certainly won’t here. This is an amazingly good buying/drinking option. So dark, so supple, so polished. Boom, as the wannabe cool kids say. Violet, clove, plum and sweet spice. The bounce of boysenberry. Sweet fruit galore. It’s not overly dark in colour terms but it tastes like ink, if that makes sense. It feels good in the mouth but it also feels ready to explode. When people ask me
What’s A Good Shiraz? This is now my recommendation." Rated : 92 Points Winefront.com.au

"Well. Does it get boring if I simply say that They’ve Done It Again? This is a sophisticated chardonnay, ripped with flint, woodsmoke, meal and toast, its core of grapefruit, slate, white peach and crushed fennel providing both the drive and the substance.

It’s all wound up, like one of those rubber-band toy cars of old, but it still manages to push appreciably through the finish and, I dare say, more is to come as it matures. Rated : 93 Points Winefront.com.au