Arila Gardens Moppa Saperavi 2024 6 Pack

94 POINTS

Sam Kim - Wine Orbit

This is richly fruited and expressive, showing blackcurrant, game, dried flower, liquorice, and assorted nut characters on the nose. The palate displays excellent weight and succulent fruit intensity, well supported by silky texture and sturdy tannins. Bold and flavoursome with a persistent, brooding finish.

93 POINTS

Ken Gargett - Winepilot

The fruit used here came from the Nietschke Moppa Estate Vineyard. Fermentation was in small open top fermenters for nine days and maturation was in older French oak hogsheads on light lees for sixteen months. Fair to say that Saperavi is still a niche variety, but don’t be surprised to see it getting serious traction over the next few years, especially if we can enjoy more wines like this. A near black colour with a dark magenta rim, this is a very good example of a Saperavi. We have aromas weaving through blackberries, fresh beetroot, dried herbs, chocolate, cigar boxes, cacao powder and tobacco leaves. There is good intensity throughout with a supple texture through to the powerful if rather satiny tannins on a persistent finish. The intensity never wavers for a moment. This will drink very well over the next decade.

93 POINTS

Dave Brookes - Halliday Wine Companion

Saperavi’s inky fingerprint leaves no doubt of its intent here. Deep, impenetrable hue. It’s an excellent Barossan expression of the Georgian variety, brooding with blackberry, dark plum and blueberry fruits cut with hints of tobacco leaf, dark spice, fruit pastille and ironstone earthiness. Pure, dark fruits glide across the palate, drawn out nicely by a tight, kinetic tannin structure that will be familiar to those au fait with saperavi. A really solid example of the variety.