Award Winning Red Wines

International Wine Challenge: Gold Winner 2008

The multi award winning Shiraz (Gold at the IWC & 94 points Robert Parker) is a benchmark for Shiraz and for the Barossa region. The ’05 occurred slightly later than usual, resulting in excellent quality fruit with higher Baume, good natural acid and superb flavour. Ten years has taken the wine to a wonderful meaty edge not to dissimilar to a great Syrah from the Northern Rhone. Incredibly wine and value to boot.

Signed by David Powell. Numbered 36/70

International Wine Challenge: Bronze Winner 2008

Made from 100% Shiraz that spent 24 months in French oak (30% new), the exuberant, flamboyant 2004 The Factor offers up gorgeously pure blueberry and blackberry fruit intermixed with smoke, bacon fat, camphor, and graphite. Silky smooth, and, as David Powell says, “the most Barossa-like” of all his wines, it represents Powell’s rendition of a Cote Rotie.
 

International Wine Challenge: Gold Winner 2014

This Decanter World Wine Awards Regional Trophy Winner is produced from a blend of 85% Tempranillo and 15% Cabernet Sauvignon from selected plots of vineyards averaging over 45 years of age and the time in the barrel is extended to 20 months. The nose is sophisticated and showing a whole host of dark red fruits. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins and silky smooth in texture with a beautiful finish of dark fruits, wild strawberry and a touch of dark chocolate. Incredibly classy and will offer much enjoyment over the next 10 to 15 years...

• Gold Medal and the Trophy for Best Cabernet Sauvignon
• Max Schubert Trophy for Most Outstanding Red Wine in Show
• Top Gold at the 2016 Royal Adelaide Wine Show
• 2016 Jimmy Watson Memorial Trophy 
(affectionately known as the 'Jimmy', is widely considered to be Australia’s most prestigious wine award)

97 Points - James Halliday
Elegance and purity personified. The varietal expression is pitch perfect, cassis standing proud, its handmaidens fine-grained tannins and cedary French oak. It is an effortless wine, no more than medium-bodied, and needs no further elaboration.

International Wine Challenge: Bronze Winner 2008

95 Points - Jay Miller

The Dead Arm Shiraz 2005 is opaque purple/black with an expansive perfume of toast, smoke, spice box, mineral, pencil lead, tar, licorice, blueberry, and blackberry. Full-bodied, opulent, and super-concentrated, this structured, lengthy wine drink well through 2025.

Decanter World Wine Awards: Bronze Medal 2010

94 Points - James Halliday

Dense stygian colour; top example of a full-bodied McLaren Vale loaded with blackberry fruit and dark chocolate, yet not hot or heavy; good extract and oak.

International Wine Challenge: Bronze Winner 2013 

95 Points - James Halliday.

From the very low-yielding '09 vintage, estate-grown and a selection of the best barrels; clear, bright red-purple, the wine is an exercise in harmony, with positive contributions from each of the black and red berry fruit, cedary oak, and positively silky tannins.

International Wine Challenge: Bronze Winner 2012

94 Points - James Halliday.

Relatively light, although healthy, colour; the expressive, perfumed bouquet of cassis leads into a finely balanced and shaped palate, with cassis, redcurrant and plum all in play; the finish and aftertaste are particularly impressive.

Decanter World Wine Awards: Gold Medal 2014

With a medium to deep garnet purple color, the 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon provides aromas of warm black currant and baked blackberries plus subtle hints of cloves and graphite. Medium to high acidity and a medium level of chewy tannins give structure to the full bodied palate, finishing long and a little warm. Drink this one now to 2018+.

International Wine Challenge: Bronze Winner 2008

95 Points - Jay Miller

The 2006 Shiraz “G.A.M.” (the initials of the Mitolo children) was aged in French and American oak, 60% new. Opaque purple in color, it has an aromatic array of roasted coffee, violets, lavender, pepper, Asian spices, blueberry, and blackberry liqueur. In the mouth it is velvety-textured, deep, concentrated, opulent, and altogether hedonistic. It will evolve for 5-7 years and drink well through 2026.