Description / Reviews
"Deep ruby. Bright, concentrated raspberry and blackberry fruit, rose garden in the morning due and potpourri complexed with exotic spice, and a flinty, mineral edge. Concentrated and fleshy throughout the mid plate and long with ribbons of fine velvety tannin and creamy pinot fruits, combined with the typical exotic spice always evident in the Doug’s cuvée. One of our best vintages from this lovely site, showing the exceptional combination of freshness, depth and structure in an elegant frame. Cellaring will be well rewarded." - Winemaker Notes
"Quite reductive on opening, aka, smoky, bold flint scents, a tension and grip in palate with smoky-stony elements in play. Catnip for some, distracting for me, but it does blow off quite soon after pouring, so stay the course if you wish to get past that. Dark cherry, paprika, eucalyptus, green capsicum and green peppercorn elements in the mesh of characters. Chinotto orange, blood orange making freshness happen. Pleasing. A good energy to the wine too. It soars with time, silky and long, persistent and interesting with great shape. Charm plus." - 94 Points, Mike Bennie, The Wine Front
