The conditions allowed us to ferment 25% of the Syrah as whole bunches to extract some of the ripe stem tannins – this is not a process we can use every year but adds to the overall complexity of flavours.
This wine excites me every time I open a bottle. I believe cool climate Adelaide Hills Syrah has an enormous future. The Syrah is elegant and refined but, importantly, still has an underlying sense of power and depth of flavour, which is why it is such a joy to share and to see people drink.

There's nothing shy about this. It's fresh and bold and packed with tarry flavour. Deep colour, intense blackberry, aniseed and tar, grainy/earthen/fruity tannin and just a whisper of toasty oak. It fumbles around for cohesion through the finish but it's raw and very young. The quality of fruit is excellent, if not outstanding. 94 points James Halliday Wine Companion

Starts and progresses well but saves its best for the final flourish of flavour through the finish.
Sizzling wine, and a steal.” – 95 Points & Special Value Wine James Halliday
..... long limey finish that really surges. I detect a little toastiness already, so whole I’m not sure it’s a long term wine, it’s pretty damn good zesty drinking now.” – 92 Points Gary Walsh

Looks legit. Tannins for days with a crunchiness that builds to tightness. Smells of garrigue, dark dried fruit, pepper-and-clove with a hit of earthiness. Sour-sweet and amar0-like to taste, just-red cherry fruit flavours with savouriness, earth and game mixed in too.
It’s not elegant or svelte, but a wilder rush of nebbiolo that drags long in the palate and with wicked chew.
Exciting to drink, so to speak. 94 points Winefront.com.au

Geez, this has some pep. Great textural experience in drinking – sort of creamy upfront then finishes with a sizzle of cranberry-like acidity. Pretty dry, though there’s a generosity of the amaro-like flavour that rolls across the palate.
Finishes with tightness and some chewy tannin. Complex, savoury rose style.
Blast of refreshment. 91 points Winefront.com.au

Big spice hit in the bouquet, almost piquant, gingery and cinnamon, sidles up to the floral stuff pretty well. Tension in texture, a slick then chalkiness; a flow of sour-sweet fruit that finishes tight and puckering. Cool reserve. Texture is great here and the wine has big refreshment factor too.
92 points Winefront.com.au

Powerful perfume. Warmth of pear and apple blossom stuff with some blanched almond nuttiness. Paints a picture. Texture is mouth-coating but very fresh, extra-long in flavour and set to medium bodied. Glossy through the palate, gently sweet and with a building lemony pucker through the close. Light nectar. Really delicious and complexity is in tow.
The best Australian fiano I’ve seen so far. 94 points Winefront.com.au

It evolves and morphs in a gripping odyssey, leaping out of the glass with violets, exotic spice, black fruits and fresh liquorice straps, scaffolded around a mouth-embracing structure of wonderfully fine tannins.
If you must know, the best of 100% whole bunch cool climate shiraz (55%) meets 50% whole bunch pinot noir (40%) and a dash of sauvignon blanc (5%).
97 points Tyson Tselzer

Grown on 20+ year old vines. Mix of estate vineyards. 20% whole bunches. Firm, spicy style. There’s nothing compromised about this. It's firm and savoury with sour, undergrowthy characters to the fore. Not sweet, not loose, not particularly easy-going. Cloves, pepper, crackles of dried leaf matter. A pervading nutty bitterness. It’s good now but it’ll be better again in a few years. 93+ points Winefront.com.au

This has lots of tannin. It’s 40% whole bunches and it’s all meat and spice, twigs and smoky oak. It’s going to divide opinion again but in an entirely positive way. Nuts, bitter shells and all. Generous velvetiness to the mid palate but it gets grainy, herbal, tannic and all manner of things through the finish. Bitterness has been embraced. Great complexity. Peppery after taste. Texture is a key feature.94+ points Winefront.com.au