94+ Points, The Wine Front, Jan 2026"Benchmark stuff, right? It does its things its own way and doesn’t follow fad or fashion. And yet in its medium weight, perfumed, spicy and floral kinda way, it sure does. I’m sure Pat and Dianne Carmody don’t worry too much about what’s vogue, keeping on and on with their verity to site and winemaking approach. Very cool.

Spicy, dark fruited, supple texture, a glint of shale and slate tannin there, lots of perfume, game meat, exotic spice, woodsy notes, smoke, sweet berry, chocolate and roast meat drippings. A big swish and slosh to texture and yet a sheath of silt and crushed rock minerality there too. Lingering flavours of woody spice and sweet fruit, some mocha and mint too. It’s very proper, very good."

93 Points, Halliday Wine Companion 2025 "An excellent dark red shot with purple. Restrained aromas with charry oak and hot bitumen, then a faint flutter of baking spices and florals follow. Lots of secondary flavours making an impact with lashings of sweet and toasty, cedary oak infusing the fuller-bodied palate, soy sauce, charred radicchio, some aniseed and pops of squishy plums, too. Then firm if gritty tannins to close."