2019 Mystery Barossa Shiraz Deal No. 84

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Sam Kim - Wine Orbit

Immensely complex and opulent, the wine shows dark fruit intensity, dark chocolate, warm spice and toasty oak characters on the nose. The concentrated palate offers outstanding depth and richly textured mouthfeel, wonderfully complemented by beautifully melded tannins, finishing impressively long and plush. Multi-layered and symphonic with loads of seductive flavours. www.sorbyadamswines.com.

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Ray Jordan - Winepilot.com

Okay, so here’s the thing. Adams The Thing is a powerhouse wine of tremendous fruit concentration and depth, and yet even with 40 months – yes 40 months – in French oak hogsheads, it doesn’t appear excessively oaky. Far from it. What you get is wave after wave rolling in with dark fruits, licorice, chocolate and inky black olive. Adams has never shied away from oak, so it’s a good thing he knows how to handle it. It’s a sort of big easy.

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Ken Gargett - WinePilot.com

Under cork, and a monster bottle, this is big in every way. Big bottle, big aromas on the nose, big colour and especially big flavours (and yes, a big price). So, it seems entirely appropriate that it should deserve a big score. An inky, opaque maroon here, this nose seems saturated in aromatic flavours – coffee beans, espresso, dark chocolate, black fruits, mocha, licorice, soy and cloves. Big in every way! The more time in glass, the more the chocolatey notes emerged on the nose. Rich and ripe, that chocolate dominated the palate as well – a wine that seems like molten chocolate. Fine and silky tannins, great intensity and immaculate balance, this is very, very long. Just delicious and I loved it. A twenty year proposition.