Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2008 Cortona Syrah Il Bosco comes across as quite focused and primary in this vintage, with layers of black fruit lurking beneath a wall of imposing tannin. The 2008 is a ...

Wine Spectator: This is mouthwatering, with dark currant, fig and black cherry fruit offset by a riveting chalky spine and a long, iron-filled finish. There's great balance between the flesh ...

Wine Spectator: Big and rich, but with a throwback feel to the gutsy bramble, tobacco and mulled plum flavors, all pushed by additional dark olive and roasted fig notes. Good cut on the finis...

Wine Spectator: Offers a lovely velvety feel from the start, with very fleshy blackberry, linzer torte and mulled plum fruit flavors woven with bittersweet cocoa, licorice snap and roasted al...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2009 Syrah Garys' is a big wine packed with black fruit, violets and spices. This is a decidedly explosive, opulent and structured Syrah that needs another year or two for...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Inky purple. Powerful blackberry and cassis aromas are complicated by suggestions of smoked meat, licorice and violet. Deeply concentrated, spice-accented cherry and dark be...

Wine Spectator: Combines ripe, grapey plum and wild berry character with a touch of meatiness, turning spicy and ending with a crushed rock and hot brick edge. Drink now through 2024. –JL

Wine Spectator: Rich flavors of black cherry and spice pick up hints of rose petal and white pepper as the finish evolves. The supple texture glides easily into a deftly balanced end point. B...

Wine Spectator: Mouthfilling, with deliciously intense anise, blackberry compote and plum pâte de fruit notes backed by lots of well-integrated briar and iron notes. The long, racy finish has...

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: Dense and dark in color, with lots of intense flavor but still in proportion, offering blackberry, black cherry and a distinctive twang of floral peach from the Viognier, fini...

Wine Spectator: Bright and jazzy, a lively mouthful of red berry, beet and spice aromas and flavors that remain zippy through the polished finish. Drink now through 2014. 200 cases imported. ...

Wine Enthusiast: Man O’ War’s 2008 Dreadnought put the winery on the map, and, although not quite as dramatic, the 2009 is a worthy successor. Aromas are lifted, peppery and cherry-filled, whi...

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, ...

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 ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Opaque ruby. Dark berries and cherry-cola on the pungent, floral-accented nose and in the mouth. Shows very good depth and firm structure, picking up spiciness with air. Ch...

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...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Deep ruby. Vibrant blackberry and cherry aromas are complicated by Asian spice and candied floral nuances. Offers sweet dark berry and bitter cherry flavors enlivened by cra...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The larger-scaled 2010 Crozes-Hermitage Le Rouvre offers a dense purple color followed by aromas of graphite, fruitcake, black currants and blackberries. This stunning, full-b...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The Reserve Shiraz reveals more oak, tannin, and ambition, but I am not convinced it is any better than its less expensive siblings. Although dominated at present by its oak c...