Andrew Caillard MW

Deep colour. Lovely dark chocolate, blackberry, mulberry aromas with light cinnamon, vanilla, roasted chestnut notes. Generous, saturated and inky with lovely deep-set blackberry, mulberry fruits, cinnamon ginger oak complexity, fine loose knit ripe lacy textures, some meaty notes and integrated long acidity. Finishes grainy firm with plenty of blackberry ginger liquorice notes. A classical Barossa Shiraz with superb density, fruit definition and balanced oak. A reference vintage. Superb unforced wine showing all the hallmarks of the Penfolds house style and regional definition. My top pick of the 2019 collection.

Angus Hughson

Bright deep ruby. A deeply fruited and brooding Barossan style with concentrated blackberry, black olive, blackcurrant pastille and spicy fruits with significant oak to match. Dry, with dense fruit and surrounded by a core of firm tannins it is a very youthful and embryonic wine - long and muscular requiring significant time to soften. Drink 8 – 25 years.

Tony Love

When you see such a direct line to the singular source of a wine, such as this sub-regional selection from the Barossa’s Western Ridge, there’s a revelation to behold. This is where many of the Valley’s gutsier reds get their engine power, and while you do see rich and ripe shiraz in this outing, the fruit is bang on, plump and true to expectations. The design perhaps is driven more by the weave of both American and French oaks over a 12-month maturation: vanilla, chocolate, sticky date pudding, cola nut all come to the tasting surface. Generous, warm and sweet-hearted Barossa Shiraz in a straight line, no twists or turns.