Despite making up a mere 6% of the wine, the white varieties really stand up. Scents of yellow flowers, apricot nectar and roasted almonds float atop a foundation of blackberry and mulberry fruit. Some exotic and woodsy spices plus black earth all gradually reveal themselves with time in the glass. Mouthfilling dark plum and dark chocolate offer some tension early, but over a couple of days of tasting it settled well yet kept some oomph in the bag. Dried herbs slide in late to a dusty and powdery finish which does not seem to surrender. One to put in the cellar and revisit in well over a decade.
94/100
Region: McLaren Vale
RRP: $200
Source: Sample
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