Red Wine from Mclaren Vale

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 points: Deep garnet colored, the 2005 Hillside Shiraz reveals a wonderfully expressive, spicy nose with some notes of game, potpourri, dried cranberries and kirsch. It is a glorious, full-bodied wine packed with complex flavor...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: The 2006 Shiraz was barrel-fermented and aged for 14 months in 85% new oak with the barrels 90% American and 10% French. Saturated purple in color it reveals a splendid bouquet of smoke pencil lead bacon grilled meat and...

Wine Spectator, 93 points: Ripe and peppery, with a spicy note weaving over the black cherry, dried tomato, licorice and mint flavors that keep pulsing through the long, expressive finish. Best from 2010 through 2017. 3,500 cases made. –HS

Wine Spectator, 93 points: Shows some subtlety, sliding its juicy blackberry and plum fruit through a veil of fine-grained tannins, with pepper and mineral overtones. Has a deft sense of harmony and balance. Best from 2010 through 2016. 2,200 cases...

Wine Spectator, 91 points: Dense and concentrated, with cassis, blackberry and dried cherry flavors that have an appealing chewy, rustic profile, with plenty of charm to the tobacco, spice and black tea flavors, lingering harmoniously. Drink now...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: Winemaker Ben Glaetzer continues to fashion big, bold Barossa Valley Shiraz. The 2015 Amon Ra Shiraz is another in a long line of muscular wines that manage to offer complexity, power and a surprising degree of elegance...

James Halliday, 94 points: 119-year-old vines have produced a shiraz with very good colour; the bouquet offers leather, spice and dark chocolate, the rippling black and red fruit flavours with exactly the right amount of fine tannins, 20 months in...

James Halliday, 94 points: Dense crimson-purple; a very different bouquet to Bella's Garden; spice, dark chocolate and licorice aromas and flavours, McLaren Vale showings its special ability to carry high alcohol better than most other regions.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 points: Named after a mythical monster the 2005 Shiraz Savitar emerges from rocky low vigor soils and was aged for 16 months in primarily new French oak barrels. Dazzling aromas of acacia flowers blueberries crushed rocks...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: D'Arenberg's 2009 The Dead Arm Shiraz is evolving slowly and beautifully. Floral, dusty aromas akin to rose hips feature on the nose, followed by flavors of cranberries and chocolate. Still a bit tight and tart, it's...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 99 points: The 2006 Shiraz "The Velvet Glove" has an awesome nose bordering on ethereal. Aromas of smoke violets grilled meat game saddle leather blueberry and chocolate leap from the glass. This full-bodied wine is packed and dense...

Wine Spectator, 93 points: Ripe and peppery, with a spicy note weaving over the black cherry, dried tomato, licorice and mint flavors that keep pulsing through the long, expressive finish. Best from 2010 through 2017. 3,500 cases made. –HS

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 92 points: 92+ Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2014 The Dead Arm Shiraz offers expressive blueberry, blackberry and licorice notes with hints of Provence herbs, tapenade, garrigue and cracked black pepper. Medium to full-bodied...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 93 points: From 6- to 34-year-old vines, the 2004 Hillside Shiraz spent 28 months in American oak, 50% new and 50% used. A blockbuster effort, it reveals deep, chocolaty, meaty notes intermixed with blackberries, cherries, and...