Dalwhinnie

Moonambel Shiraz 2008

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  Vintage 2008
  95 points www.winecompanion.com.au

Attractive colour; the bouquet has a seductive offering of black fruits, dark spices and minerals; the palate is loaded with sweet fruits, with redcurrant providing light to the blackberry shade; the texture is engaging, with plentiful fine-grained tannins, and a lingering mineral complexity to the finish.

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  Vintage 2008
  95 points www.winefront.com.au

An exquisitely delicious red. We’re rating it below last year’s release for sheer quality, but in truth we prefer this as a drink. It’s just so well balanced, so silky smooth, so savoury and yet so sweet. It tastes of plums, coffee beans, Asian spices and woodsmoke. Trace elements of mint provide lift. It has beautiful but unobtrusive tannin and gorgeous input from oak. A wonderful Aussie red.