2020 Sorby Adams Le Verrier Barossa Shiraz

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Ken Gargett - WinePilot.com

A classic Barossa Shiraz from the fine, if firm, vintage of 2020. The wine spent two years maturing in French oak hogsheads, 30% new. Deep opaque purple in colour, the nose is redolent of smoked meats, warm earth, tobacco leaves, aniseed, dried herbs, chocolate and black fruits. This is quite a fleshy style of Shiraz, with well-integrated oak, which gives off a flicker of vanilla. Seamless, satiny tannins, excellent persistence and an exciting future. Ten to twenty years will sail by with this wine. Delicious.

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Dave Brookes - Halliday's Wine Companion

Deep crimson in the glass with aromas of satsuma plum, blackberry and black cherry fruits with hints of baking spices, cedar, leather, mahogany, dark chocolate and earth. Some nice velvety berry and plum fruits on the palate and a slighty 'old school' Barossa feel to its shape with oak playing its role, supple fruit, fine powdery tannin and a touch of morello cherry on the finish.