2020 Mystery McLaren Vale Shiraz Deal No. 5742

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Sam Kim - Wine Orbit

This is gorgeously expressed on the nose, showing black and blueberry, warm spice, thyme, liquorice, and toasty oak characters. The palate is equally satisfying with weighty mouthfeel and fleshy texture, wonderfully framed by layers of fine-grained tannins, making it immensely satisfying.

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Ray Jordan - Winepilot

Sourced from Blewitt Springs within the great McLaren Vale region. It’s a region that produces such distinctive and classy wines, and this one is right on the money. Balanced, succulent, fresh medium to full-bodied fruit with older oak, allowing the beautiful fruit qualities to emerge. The blackberry and plummy notes of the nose are complemented with a spicy, slightly dusty character. Bright palate with a chalky tannin influence to the chocolatey black fruits. Excellent wine.

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Marcus Ellis - Halliday Wine Companion

From a Blewitt Springs site on sand over clay; 12 months in seasoned French oak. As the wines step up Ulithorne’s many-runged shiraz ladder, they seem to go up in concentration and plushness, the consistent theme a velvety, luxurious mouthfeel and refined tannins. Even with that intensity, the flavours still straddle the red zone – red plum and raspberry – if notably ripe, joining blackberry, black cherry, demi-glace and Dutch licorice, with ginger, clove and vanilla oak notes in support. It’s a suave and sophisticated package, and pretty hard not to like.