This Barossa Valley Shiraz comes from five distinct plots within the home Marananga vineyard. Beautifully perfumed with dark cherries, blueberries, and a subtle layer of fine French oak, this wine is both powerful and silky smooth. Bold and immediately captivating, it features 10% whole-bunch fermentation, with each plot naturally fermented and basket-pressed into French oak (15% new). Natural malolactic fermentation took place in barrel, where the wine aged for 16 months before being carefully blended to create the final cuvée. Bottled unfined and unfiltered, it’s also vegan-friendly.
94 Points Wine Pilot
From the Marananga region with 8% whole bunches, the remainder being whole berries fermented in open tanks for ten days. Basket pressed to French oak hogsheads, 30% new, with maturation over 18 months. An opaque purple, there are notes of aniseed, cassis, black olives, chocolate, coffee beans, black fruits, soy and roast meats. Plush with big, bold flavours, there is a really lovable generosity here plus silky tannins. Approachable now but will drink beautifully for many years, at least ten to fifteen. A cracker.
92 Points - Wine Companion
Shiraz sourced from several plots across the Curator estate in Marananga; matured in French oak (15% new) for 18 months. What a pretty-smelling wine! Lifted red plum, blueberry and mulberry notes are underlined by hints of baking spices, red licorice, ironstone, violets, earth and milk chocolate. Red and dark berry fruits on the palate with tight, sandy tannin, bright acidity and a medium-length finish with just a swoosh of tobacco.
95 Points - Wine Orbit
Gorgeously styled and expressed, showing black and purple fruit intensity, toasty oak, warm spice and dark chocolate notes on the nose, followed by a concentrated palate offering velvety texture and finely woven tannins. An abundance in delicious flavours within a properly structured frame. At its best: now to 2036.
92 Points - The Real Review
Rich ruby red in the glass, blueberry, mocha and ironstone aromatics. Palate mirrors the nose in its profile and there's a finely structured tannin profile that still offers great drive and tension to a long finish. Ticks a lot of boxes without overdoing it and will cellar well. Drink 2023–2028
