Wine Front: This 2007 is not a hard wine to like. It's beautifully structured. Beautifully fruited. Blackberries, cloves, eucalypt and integrated cedary oak. Indeed I kept coming back to ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright purple. Brooding, mineral-driven aromas of blackcurrant, mulberry, cola and crushed rock, with a liqueur-like nuance. Supple, lush and sweet but with zesty acidity and ...

Wine Spectator: Very bright and fresh, with delicious plum, blueberry and crushed cherry fruit flavors mingling with spice cake, black tea and incense notes. The finish is long and supple. Dr...

Wine Spectator: Ripe and inviting, with the richness and expansiveness to support the juicy plum, currant, blackberry, pepper and licorice flavors stylishly, lingering expressively on the foc...

Wine Spectator: Complex flavors of blackberry, wild berry, cedar, spice and chicory are full-bodied and focused, with a minerally edge turning to tar and ending with chewy, gripping tannins t...

Wine Enthusiast: This Syrah tries to strike a balance between rich opulence and controlled elegance, and it largely succeeds. It’s has exquisite tannins and fine acidity, finishing bone dry. T...

About this Wine: As I have written many times, all of these wines are produced from rigidly cultivated, bio-dynamically managed vineyards. That has been the rule since Michel Chapoutier fi...

Wine Spectator: This has depth for the vintage, with plum sauce, violet, blackberry and mulled cherry notes laced with incense and graphite. The long finish has a nice velvety feel, with a bu...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: A product of the lowest crop on record at Magill (about 1 ton to the acre), the 2007 Magill Estate Shiraz is as ever a single vineyard wine that was matured 14 months in 95% n...

Wine Spectator: Very stylish, with soft but persistent mouthfeel to the blackberry, pepper, tobacco and cocoa notes. Features lingering black tea and iron notes on the finish. Drink now throu...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Deep garnet colored, the 2006 The Laird offers a multi-faceted nose of ripe black berries, blueberry preserves and kirsch aromas with an underlying perfume of baking spices, l...

Wine Spectator: Big, rich and ripe, piling layers of flavor on one another, offering mineral-accented black cherry, blackberry, cola and spice flavors that soar through the long, vivid finish...

Wine Front: Lots of everything. Mint, bourboned oak, sage and dill, black fruit, licorice, some pepper. Full bodied, plenty of weight and scale, at 15.5 it holds its booze well - would no...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The flagship 2006 Shiraz Hanisch ups the ante considerably. Purple/black in color, it exhibits a brooding bouquet of toasty oak, smoke, leather, espresso, wild blueberry, and ...

Wine Spectator: Smooth and polished, delivering a plush mouthful of plum, blackberry and balsamic aromas and flavors that linger on the finish with a touch of coffee. Drink now through 2016. ...

Wine Front: We're late to come to this - the 2007 may even have been released? - but now that I don't live in Melbourne it can be difficult to get ahold of a Craiglee. I've had this relea...

Wine Spectator: This has good guts for the vintage, with blackberry, briar and aged tobacco notes laid over solid, grippy tannins. Bittersweet cocoa and Black Forest cake notes stretch out on...

Wine Spectator: Very round and fresh, with delicious crushed fig, plum sauce and graphite flavors laced with spice and sweet earth notes. The long, incense- and toast-filled finish has lovely...

Wine Spectator: Crisp and vibrant. A juicy mouthful of blueberry and plum flavors, with a black pepper note and a pleasing minerality to the finish that give this distinction. Best from 2009 ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Opaque purple. Smoky cassis and blueberry aromas are complicated by cracked pepper, violet and dusty minerals. Juicy and sweet, with dense dark fruit preserve flavors given ve...