2021 Mystery Barossa Valley Shiraz Deal No. 67

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James Halliday - Halliday's Wine Companion

Shiraz sourced from the Hampel family vineyard in the northern grounds of the Barossa Valley where they have farmed grapes for six generations. Super-plush satsuma plum and blackberry fruits underscored by hints of baking spices, cedar, crème de cassis, violets, roasting meats, olive tapenade, chocolate bullets and earth. A core of deep northern Barossa black fruits on the palate with chocolate-dipped cherry overtones, fine chocolatey tannins and a crashing swell of cassis fruit on the long finish. Impressive.

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Erin Larkin

A profusion of sweet fruit emanates from the glass of this 2021 Hampel Single Vineyard Shiraz, offering up sugar-dusted raspberries, rose petals, cassis, red toffee apples, rhubarb spears, strawberries and wine gums. In the mouth, the exotically spiced oak steps up to the plate and makes itself felt, however the fruit has such unerring power and drive that it doesn't impact it one jot. This has a silky, sybaritic display of forest fruits and opulent tannins; it's a wine built for pleasure not speed. 14.5% alcohol, sealed under natural cork.

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The Wine Collective - Tasting Panel

Black berries and black plum on the nose, the is dense and concentrate, black berries, mulberries, touch or rose petal, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, cedar, pine, vanilla, with ripe full tannins and long length, blockbuster.