Remarkably, the 2002 Syrah Brookman Vineyard is even more compelling than the 2003. Still an infant, it exhibits a saturated blue/purple color as well as a marvelous perfume of blueberry and blackberry liqueur intermixed with scents of flowers, graphite, vanilla, coffee, and licorice. It possesses great intensity along with a wealth of fruit and glycerin covering substantial tannin, and a spectacular finish that lasts over a minute. Give it 3-5 more years of bottle age, and enjoy it over the following two decades. Roman Bratasiuk is one of Planet Earth’s greatest winemakers, and obviously a top-notch viticulturist given his obsession with sourcing extraordinary fruit from ancient McLaren Vale vineyards. --Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate, October 2004.

Inky aromas of blackcurrants and plums over musky, meaty suggestions of undergrowth and sweet, cedary oak. Ripe, firm and intense, its brightly-lit flavours of cassis, raspberries and blackberries overlie a firm, drying chassis of powdery tannins, finishing long and savoury with nuances of dark olives and plums. (McLaren Vale, 17.2, 2007-2010+) --Jeremy Oliver, 07.17.04