Wine Spectator: "Smart Buy" Designation: Dark and spicy, with violet notes around the blackberry and mineral flavors, finishing with shades of pepper and smoke. Drink now through 2016. --Harv...

Wine & Spirits: A pure, black currant'scented cabernet, this wine's plump fruit is restrained by tight, herbal spice. The texture lends a sense of refinement in its light feel. Pour it with f...

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...

Wine Front: Aromas of black plums, red cherry, cloves and earth. A pluming entry to a wine that shows soft, smoothly polished tannins amongst a wash of cranberry sour/sweetness and savour...

Wine Spectator: Crisp, expressive and generous, this medium-framed white offers pear, apple and tangerine flavors that play against hints of spice as the refined finish lingers. Drink now t...

Wine Front: Comes with a curious bronzing garnet colour and light bright spice aromas, though there's suggestions of savoury and animale too. Has an appealing meaty, rustic edge, linear a...

James Suckling: A beautiful white, with lemon curd and apple tar character. Medium to-full body, with bright acidity and a clean finish. Limey sherbet. Hints of apple cream on the finish. Sc...

James Halliday: Mid-crimson; the bouquet is loaded with seductive sweet red and black fruits, Asian spices and a little gamey complexity; the palate is silky and seductive on entry, the mid-p...

Wine Front: Lovely combination of flavours here. Pears, sweet and savoury. Nectarines. Oak spice. A slip of lactose. Maybe even some brine. Green-ish acids through the finish, but in a pl...

Wine Front: It's an elegant pinot noir with punchy length. Not quite a peacock's tail but not far from it. Dark cherries with a lighter, redder, strawberried lift. Forest floor. Saucy soy...

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...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Pale yellow. Smoky pear and pit fruit aromas are complicated by jasmine and a leesy quality. Chewy in texture, with juicy nectarine and poached pear flavors picking up a dus...

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...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Opaque ruby. Smoky, mineral-driven aromas of black raspberry, cherry-cola, cured meat and violets, plus a strong spicecake overtone. Intense red berry flavors are lifted by ...

Wine Spectator: Plush-textured and multi-layered, delivering a serious mouthful of blackberry, guava, cherry and black pepper flavors that persist into the expressive finish. Best from 2013 t...

Wine Front: Lime, pea pod, juicy passionfruit, tight with good acidity. Has a gin and tonic like edge and is typical of the regional style. A bit flinty with a tight and tangy finish. Goo...

Wine Spectator: Polished, open-textured and nicely balanced to let the pear, apricot and clove flavors come through clearly, and linger on the finish. Drink now. –HS

Wine Front: Classic lemon and lime, touch of perfume, dry but juicy sweet, even twisting some melons and green mango. Superb length with a taut dry minerally close. Textbook. So good is i...

Wine Front: Some sulphur, good fruit, peachy, zesty lemon, good acid, plenty of flint and drive. Like that it's a bit extra minerally, possibly because of the sulphur, but hey. Jumps on t...