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Grange 2011

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  Vintage 2011
  93 points MW

Inky fresh wine with dark cherry, plum, roasted coffee, paneforte, meaty flavours, sweet fruit notes, dense chalky textures and underlying mocha, biscuit oak notes. An attractive elegantly styled Grange.

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  Vintage 2011
  96 points The Real Review

Deep, rich red colour with purple tints. The bouquet starts off very oaky, and with a lot of swirling becomes richly mocha-like, peppery and dark chocolaty. Lindt dark chocolate with raspberries, to be precise. The wine is dense and fleshy in the mouth, with plenty of extract. It seems a shade lighter in body than usual, but still powerful. It's nicely balanced and smoothly-textured. The richness, density and harmony are very good indeed. Not a great Grange but superb, and surprisingly so for the disastrously wet year. And it can be enjoyed already. (Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale & Magill. No cabernet this year; it's 100% shiraz)