Excellent crimson-purple; has a fragrant plum and cherry bouquet then an intense and very long palate moving into a savoury black fruit spectrum; exemplary tannin and French oak management underpins the line and balance of a wine destined to outlive many who taste it.

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 this year adding just a kiss of vanilla. Medium weight with fine grained tannin and balanced acidity it fills the mouth with a smooth and effortless charm. The pitch and length all just so - harmony. On a second day's tasting it developed a little more Hunter leather and coal (although I reckon they have had quite enough of that already). It would be foolish to drink this now - wait at least ten or even twenty years for it to show its best.

This is a wine that is focused and long with an extremely intense blackpepper and spice character. Dense and long. So much going on. Wild yet reserved. GIve it four years of bottle age before drinking. Will age for much much longer.

Deep garnet-purple colored the 2009 Graveyard Shiraz offers pronounced notes of warm black cherries mulberries menthol aniseed crispy pork skin and cloves. Medium-bodied it has wonderful concentration of berry and spice flavors crisp seamless acid medium-firm grainy tannins and a long finish with lingering notes of anise and menthol. Drink this one 2014 to 2024. 94+