"Sumptuous and smoky, creamy and savoury, this Clare Valley shiraz has all the bells and whistles. Deep spicy plum and blackcurrant fruit is handsomely paired with assertive chocolate, mocha and charry vanilla oak, plus firm, ripe tannins. Despite all its richness and weight, it's still stylish and harmonious." (18.8, Drink 2006-2010+)" Jeremy Oliver's 'On Wine', 10.01.01.

"Medium to full red-purple; a concentrated and complex bouquet lavishly oaked, but with the fruit to ultimately sustain that oak. The palate is precisely as the bouquet promises, with lashings of deep, dark fruit, oak and daunting tannins. A 21st anniversary wine for those born in 1998." James Halliday, 03.01.01

"Bright and flavorful, supple and silky, with generous black cherry, anise and sweet leather flavors that last and last on the fine-grained finish. Drink now through 2010. 5,000 cases made. (HS)" The Wine Spectator, Nov. 30, 2001.