Robert Oatley McLaren Vale Pennant Shiraz 2018

95 POINTS

Ned Goodwin - Halliday's Wine Companion

This is exceptional. Quintessentially regional shiraz that neither shirks nor flaunts its warm-climate origins. Sure, there is a lather of toasty, high-quality oak. But at this embryonic stage, it is to be expected. Behind this buttress lies ample Indian spice, blue and black fruit aspersions, licorice blackstrap and soaring violet riffs tuned to high voltage, all the while compressed into a vortex of tension by quality tannins.