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...

Wine Front: Beautiful aromas, pure of fruit and gently savoury, dash of pepper, a touch of concentrated dried fruit character, but lending character not distraction. There's a soft ferrou...

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 Spectator: Smooth and ripe, with pomegranate and red cherry fruit at the core and a strong overlay of peppery spice. The slightly gritty tannins need cellaring, but this should get there...

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

Wine Spectator: Fresh and vibrant, this is nicely framed, offering a juicy mouthful of pear, apple sauce, cinnamon and tobacco flavors, lingering on the jazzy finish. Drink now through 2017. ...

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: 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...

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...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Very deep purple-black colored, the 2009 Autograph Shiraz is intensely scented of creme de cassis, black cherry preserves and dried plums with hints of fruit cake, baking spic...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Dark purple. The nose offers an explosively aromatic array of sexy red and dark berry scents accompanied by vanilla, sandalwood, cola and baking spices. Precise blackberry and...

About this Wine: "A very consistent vineyard, which always has very dark colour and black plum fruit with a gamey, leathery background. This has more to do with Cornas or Hermitage."

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: While not as expressive as the Kangarilla, the 2001 Grenache Old Vines Hickinbotham Vineyard is a full-bodied, structured, muscular effort with notes of black fruits intermixe...

Wine Front: I tasted and reviewed this with the label facing me, but without knowing the price tag... No one quite invests in McLaren Vale grenache like D'Arenberg does, so you can't blam...

Wine Spectator: Rich, dark and unctuous, its layers of crème brûlée, walnut, hazelnut and coffee mingling easily against lovely hints of molasses. The finish brings it all together harmonious...

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...

About this Wine: Produced from 26-year old vines and aged in French oak (80% new)

Wine Spectator: Dark and dense, with a juicy feel to the very ripe cherry, plum and exotic spice flavors. A flash of roasted red pepper adds interest to the finish. Drink now through 2016. -H...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2005 Pinot Noir Estate "Sigma" was aged for 18 months in French oak including 30% new Francois Freres barrels. The wine has superb aromatics featuring toasty, mineral, bla...

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...