Mr. Riggs

The Chap Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon

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  Vintage 2020
  97 points points Wine Orbit

A magnificent rendition, the rich bouquet shows dark fruit intensity, cake spice, game, bouquet garni, and cedar characters. The concentrated palate displays awesome weight and power, wonderfully structured by refined texture and layers of chalky tannins. It's intensely flavoured with seductive complexity, finishing persistent and gratifying. A blend of grapes from McLaren Vale Coonawarra

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  Vintage 2020
  98 points points

The colour is something akin to a black hole – so deep, opaque and impenetrable. It’s a blend of McLaren Vale Shiraz and Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon, and this is just the fifth release from the first in 2012. The McLaren Vale component from the cooler Clarendon subregion brings both elegance and a vibrant middle palate, sweetness and density. The earlier ripening Coonawarra input is all about structure and definition. But this is not a bruising big wine. It is refined and elegantly presented with a brilliance and purity of fruit. Hard to put down now, but cellaring for 20 years would not be a problem.