Cape Barren

Old Vine McLaren Vale Shiraz

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  Vintage 2019
  96 Points points Wine Orbit

This is gracefully opulent, showing blackberry, cedary oak, potpourri and dark chocolate aromas on the nose, leading to a mouthfilling palate that's plush and persistent. It's stacked with richness with gorgeous complexity, wonderfully padded by supple tannins, finishing impressively long and sumptuous. At its best: now to 2039.

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  Vintage 2019
  94 Points points Ken Gargett - Wine Pilot

This wine came from a mix of twenty selected French and American oak hogsheads. Deep maroon in hue, the extra years here have knocked off any edges. Notes of soft chocolate and blackfruits, spices, nutmeg, tobacco leaves and a dusty of cocoa powder. Alluring, seamless and focused, in a linear style. Juicy flavours, fine acidity and well balanced, this is a very fine example of McLaren Vale Shiraz with a decade plus still ahead of it, and room to improve.