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Cavaliere McLaren Vale Shiraz 2021

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  Vintage 2016
  95 points Wine Orbit

It is sweetly fragrant and instantly appealing on the nose showing dark and purple fruit aromas together with tar, game, cocoa and spicy oak nuances. The palate is rich, intense and fleshy, displaying excellent power as well as rounded mouthfeel, wonderfully complemented by velvety texture and silky tannins. Impressively flavoursome and very long on the finish with loads of delectable flavours. At its best: now to 2027

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  Vintage 2016
  94 points Halliday Wine Companion

Hand-picked 60yo vines, crushed and destemmed, open-fermented with cultured yeast, 14 days on skins, matured in new French hogsheads for 10 months. The deep, vivid colour signals a newborn full-bodied wine that needs many years to open its door for business. It is balanced, and its impenetrable black forest of fruit, French oak and powerful, but supple, tannins will all play a role.