Our Medal Winning Wines

  2021 Best Shiraz Wines - Wine Companion Awards

Decanter Magazine – Top 10 wineries in McLaren Vale

97 Points James Halliday "Block 6 is a 1.4ha east-facing block of 125yo vines with very complex soils. Hand-picked, crushed and destemmed, 11 days on skins, matured for 20 months in French and American puncheons (40% new). If ever there was an iron fist in a velvet glove this is it, but with one qualification: the iron fist was created by a master sculptor, the wine quite special, and fully deserving its price."

  2021 Best Chardonnay Wines - Wine Companion Awards

98 points - James Halliday "Planted on a east-facing terraced hill slope. It's quite certain the wine was barrel-fermented with a percentage of new French oak, but it's been soaked up by the fruit. It's an intricately polished wine, the fruit/oak/acid balance sheer perfection, its longevity impossible to guess."

95 Points - Campbell Mattinson "Fabulous chardonnay. The cup runneth over. Slick, spritely, satiny and sustained. There’s flavour, there’s finesse, there’s a flourish to the finish. Lemon, lime, a sorbet-like aspect, nectarine and white peach, with a classy clip of spicy-sweet cedarwood oak. There’s almost a bacony aspect here, a smoked meat note, rosemary even, though it’s exquisitely pure of fruit. Potential for positive development is huge."

  2021 Best Chardonnay Wines - Wine Companion Awards

97+ - 98 Points - Stuart McCloskey “The bouquet is inviting with poached apples and pears (lightly spiced), lemon oil and lots of sea spray which builds fabulously with more aeration. A wine of great delicacy with the balance between fruit, structure and acidity pitch perfect. The palate is chiselled and laser-like with racy acidity. Saline, lemon, green apple and flint. Very sophisticated and intellectual, but natural all the same. The focus and purity feel unforced – very contemporary. Bottle age will develop this wine into an absolute beauty. It certainly has the pedigree and structure to offer at least a decade. Oh so graceful and the finish lasts for minutes… I predict this will score 98 to 99 points with a few years bottle age.”

 International Wine Challenge: Gold 2017

98 Points - Sam Kim, Wine Orbit "A wine of total seduction, the gloriously perfumed bouquet shows dark plum, blueberry, floral and game with nuances of cedar and black pepper. The palate is powerful and sumptuous, and delivers waves of delectable fruit flavours, enhanced by velvety texture and loads of supple tannins. Compelling and formidable, while remaining pure and true to its origin. From their Omahu Gravels and Twyford Gravels vineyards in the Gimblett Gravels district. At its best: 2018 to 2032."

 Vinorium Award - 2019 Red Wine of the Year: Silver

99+ Stuart McCloskey “Personally, Dan provides the ultimate Aussie Shiraz experience as he masterfully tempers a colossus of a wine with such cooling grace. Where on earth do you begin with the aromatics? Earth, Indian ink, violets, cold steel, woodsmoke, bitumen and smoked meat, infused with mulberry, blueberry compote and black raspberry. Vanilla permeated with sweet spice (nutmeg). Wait another 60-minutes and the entire line-up changes with leather, warming spices, campfire, olive tapenade, menthol and liquorice adding to the mix.  The aromatic evolution in my glass is a work of art in its own right. The palate is generous, almost voluptuous and the detail is so precise. It’s certainly changed since my last tasting as the woodsmoke and meaty components are now at the fore. Violet, graphite, leather, spiced cake and liquorice weave a little magic, the fruit feels dense, pastille-like and wild. There’s a floral prettiness too (where did that emerge from?). The amplitude of this wine is a meal in itself. The tannins are the work of a genius – a deft touch and very much required. The purity is on a different level to most Aussie Shiraz. Many will opt for the 2018 however, and certainly for the next decade, this is the vintage to focus on. I genuinely could spend an entire day with this wine and write a 3000+ word tasting note. Magnificence personified, albeit in the form of a red wine. Almost perfect, but I am simply being pedantic for the sake of it. Decanted for 4-hours and served using Zalto Bordeaux glassware.” Tasted 20.10.2021

 Vinorium Award - 2019 White Wine of the Year: Silver

97+ Points Stuart McCloskey "Sharply focused, linear with a vibrancy which I wasn’t expecting. The floral character comes to the fore which compliments the nashi pear, peach, melon and suggestion of jasmine brilliantly. The palate is expansive with swathes of buttered citrus fruits underpinned with a core of minerals. I’ll be brutally honest, I was expecting a voluptuous Barossa bombshell. Instead, I received an unexpected balancing act between litheness and precision which is extremely impressive. This is one of those rare wines which floats on the palate but delivers to every millimetre.  Drinking beautifully now (decant for 20 mins) but will cellar for 8-10 years." 

  2021 Best Shiraz Wines - Wine Companion Awards

Decanter Magazine – Top 10 wineries in McLaren Vale

97 Points James Halliday "Block 6 is a 1.4ha east-facing block of 125yo vines with very complex soils. Hand-picked, crushed and destemmed, 11 days on skins, matured for 20 months in French and American puncheons (40% new). If ever there was an iron fist in a velvet glove this is it, but with one qualification: the iron fist was created by a master sculptor, the wine quite special, and fully deserving its price."

  Top Rated Cabernet Sauvignon - 2020 Wine Companion Awards

98 Points - James Halliday "From a single vineyard owned by the Zerk family, planted 1880 to 1890, making it one of the oldest cabernet vineyards in Australia (and the world). Wild yeast-open fermented, hand-plunged, 8 days on skins, pressed to French hogsheads (44% new), on lees 17 months. This is pure and simple cabernet, elegant, long and finely structured. A great cabernet vintage for this great vineyard."