Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good youthful deep red. Perfumed, multifaceted aromas of crystallized black cherry, cassis, gibier and smoke. Fruity and precise in the mouth, with amazingly youthful dark ber...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The profound 2005 Shiraz John Zilm was aged in new French and used American oak for 16 months. With an inky/blue/purple color, plenty of purity, richness, and depth as well as...

Wine Spectator: Rich and dense, but velvety and nicely detailed, with sleek-edged cassis, blackberry and plum fruit woven with white pepper, mulled spice and dark olive notes. A strong, tangy...

Wine Spectator: Rich and nicely toasty, with lots of baker's chocolate and espresso notes, but also ample flesh, joined by succulent layers of blackberry, plum and fig fruit as well. The long...

Wine Spectator: A towering Barossa Shiraz. Distinctively spicy, brimming with prune, pepper and leather aromas and flavors on a rich, supple frame. Resonates beautifully on the finish, and wi...

About this Wine: The 1 hecatare, terraced Cornas Les Eygats site is situated at a relatively high altitude. It has pure granite soil and and an ideal south-east exposure.

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Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Inky purple. A ripe, expansive nose is at once decadent and lively, offering notes of candied dark berries, smoky minerals, black pepper, and olive. Lush and fine-grained, wit...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Most of the fruit comes from hillside vineyards in Larnage. The 2010 St.-Joseph Les Granits (870 cases produced) is a more flowery, elegant, feminine-styled effort than Les Va...

Wine Spectator: Sleek and tightly wound for now, with a bundle of red licorice, cassis, damson plum and spice notes at the core, pushed by brisk acidity and a lively, chalky edge on the finis...

Wine Spectator: Blackberry, cracked pepper and graphite aromas and flavors, with hints of vanilla and toast, highlight this muscular red. Firmly structured, yet resonates on the long raspberr...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright ruby-red. Brooding, deep nose dominated by pepper and spice. Large-scaled but youthfully clenched, with a strong peppery quality complicated by flowers and dark chocola...

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: An open-throttle Syrah that's pure, rich and powerful, with a potent mix of dense plum, blackberry, blueberry and dried herb holding a tight focus and gaining depth through th...

About this Wine: St Hallett Wines sources the shiraz fruit for this wine from throughout the Barossa, from shiraz vineyards ranging in age from 10 years to some that are at least 80 years ...

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: Opens a little stinky and charred but there's a good amount of fleshy cherry and plum fruit along with Hunter earth and some vanilla oak. Appropriately firm, but fine tannin, ...

Wine Spectator: Rich, ripe and generous, bursting with vivid blackberry, currant and floral flavors that dance energetically against refined tannins, finishing with length on the crisp finish...

Wine Front: Earthier, darker and richer, nutty oak. Full red and black fruit, soft and supple, bit of acid on top, but a seductive more fruit driven style all up - though oak is still a t...

About this Wine: The northern sites of Kalimna and Ebenezer contribute juicy dark berry fruit and rich mocha flavours to the wine while western sites such as Seppeltsfield give Blackwell i...

Wine Spectator: Shows a lightly firm plum skin edge, with a briary feel to the pomegranate, black cherry pepper and tobacco notes. A tangy iron edge peeks through on the finish, with the bria...