2021 Mount Horrocks Shiraz

95 POINTS

Huon Hooke - The Real Review

Deep-ish, bright red-purple hue with a bright cherry and spice aroma, the palate elegantly cast with refined tannins and great style. Indeed, unusual levels of both spice and elegance for shiraz from this region. Intense and focused, spritely and lingering, with a firm finish that presages good cellaring prospects. By Huon Hooke, The Real Review, 4th March 2023

94 POINTS

Mike Bennie - Halliday Wine Companion

The Alexander vineyard is organically grown and biodynamic certified. Lush and rich with very dark berry fruitiness the mainstay with a support act of tobacco, clove and cinnamon in a brown spice melange and a flicker of choc-mint in the mix. Scents are more fruit-driven, the palate showing the glue of fine but prominent woody oak with spice as the overarching theme. That being said, it has pleasure in impressive concentration, the palate-staining intensity a feat. It delivers on the promise.

94 POINTS

Erin Larkin - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2021 Alexander Vineyard Shiraz hails from the excellent 2021 vintage in Clare and leads with a nose riddled with pure cassis, blackberry, raspberry, dark chocolate and blueberries. There are also pink peppercorns. In the mouth, the wine is supple, leafy and fine; it has a skein of graphite tannins that course through the fruit, and it shows an elegance and poise that is most pleasurable. It has a succulent mid-palate that really inspires you to to chew and move to get the flavor moving. This is a lovely wine. 14% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.

93 POINTS

Campbell Mattinson - The Wine Front

It’s a red fruited frame, which lends the wine an elegance, but it’s also sweet in its profile, which gives it an immediate, juicy deliciousness. Redcurrant, plum and mint notes move into bunchy herb and roasted spice notes. It’s drinking beautifully now, as said, but it will develop well too.