Brand's Laira

Stentifords Old Vine Shiraz 2013

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  Vintage 2012
  97 points Halliday Wine Companion

Bright crimson; the bouquet is almost perfumed, so fruit-expressive is it; red cherry, black cherry and plum are the fruit drivers of the bouquet and the beautifully elegant and balanced palate; that balance rests on the fruit, the fine-grained tannins, and evident, but restrained, oak. Coonawarra shiraz at its best.

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  Vintage 2016
  92 points The Real Review

Deep colour which has lost all of its youthful purples and is now brick-red; the bouquet echoing this state of development with baked-earth, pencil-shavings aromas and a hint of the roasting pan and dried meats. The wine is full-bodied but mellowing nicely, the tannins ample but supple, the flavours passing into the savoury, tertiary stage. There's attractive complexity here, albeit the wine is more forward than expected at six years. (from vines over 120 years old)