Wine Spectator: Lots of raspberry and tobacco flavors slide easily across polished tannins, lingering nicely on the deftly balanced finish. Graceful stuff. Drink now through 2017. -HS

Wine Front: Made entirely with Barossa Valley shiraz, as always - and this year matured in 83 percent new French oak (the highest percentage of new oak in Penfolds RWT since the 1998). ...

About this Wine: This single vineyard wine was planted by Dave Powell in 1994 with cuttings off old RunRig vineyards.

James Halliday: Bright, clear colour; the fragrant mix of red fruits, spice and forest on the bouquet leads into a silky, mouthwatering palate, with red fruits, fine tannins and precisely cal...

About this Wine: This wine should drink well for the next 10-15 years.

Wine Spectator: Tangy, focused, spicy and refreshing, with a line of acidity making the wine mouthwatering underneath flavors of lime, grapefruit and green apple. Tightly wound, this has the ...

Wine Spectator: Polished and round, delivering a dense mouthful of cherry, dried blueberry, white pepper and tar flavors that pick up a thin layer of gritty tannins as the finish sails on e...

About this Wine: Bindi Block Five Pinot Noir was planted in 1992. The Block Five vineyard is about half of one hectare in size on a sheltered, north facing, and very quartz riddled site. It is...

About this Wine: The palate shows balanced layers of upfront sweet berry flavours and savoury oak influences on the mid-palate with velvety tannins and dark chocolate complementing the lon...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Pale yellow. Complex, intensely perfumed bouquet displays mineral-accented citrus and pear, with a strong iodine note and mounting spiciness. Juicy and light on its feet, of...

Wine Spectator: This sings with spicy, creamy pear and lanolin flavors, finding restraint as the finish lingers enticingly. Cries out to accompany shellfish. Drink now through 2018. — H.S.

Wine Spectator: This has great presence, offering a focused mouthful of ebullient flavors, ranging from blackberry and cherry to tar, wet pavement and licorice notes, all of it sailing over r...

About this Wine: "This estate's most renowned offering is their old vine Shiraz (90+ year old vines) called The Dead Arm. The unfined/unfiltered 1999 The Dead Arm Shiraz (2,000 cases) was aged...

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 Front: The overarching impression it gives you is one of balance. It's impeccable. Blue fruit, licorice, a little pepper and earth with a gentle charry sauciness. Oak is downplayed t...

About this Wine: This wine should drink well for the next 10-15 years.

About this Wine: An acknowledged icon of the Barossa, St Hallett Old Block is an elegant and seamless Shiraz widely recognised as world class. Derived purely from low cropping old vines of...

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 ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Light yellow. Pear, lemon gelato, honeysuckle and toasty oak on the nose. Smoky orchard fruit flavors show good density and are lifted by tangy acidity. A sweet melon note ...

Wine Spectator: Toasty, spicy and complex, this is polished to a gleam and redolent of ripe pear, pineapple, honey and butterscotch, finishing with just enough acidity to keep it refreshing a...