2022 Spinifex Bête Noir

95 POINTS

Dave Brookes - Halliday Wine Companion

Shiraz sourced from the subregions of Moppa, High Eden, Light Pass and the Eastern Foothills; whole cluster varied from between 15% and 45% depending on the parcel but equates to about 35% in the final blend. Deeply coloured and one of the broodier examples of Peter's wines with deep, wonderfully pure blackberry, black cherry and Doris plum fruits, cut with clove, bay leaf, crushed rock, dark chocolate bullets, black tea, meadow herbs, olive tapenade and roast meats. Purely fruited with a crushed rock savouriness, great length of flavour and a bright seam of acidity that lifts everything up on the finish.

94 POINTS

Campbell Mattinson - The Wine Front

This is a Barossa Shiraz for all-comers. It’s bold, rich and flavoursome but it’s also complex and tannic. It gives and it gets. It tastes of peanut shells and saturated plums, fragrant herbs, raisins, purple flowers, a ferrous note and red licorice. It carries a keen spread of tannin but this tannin is drenched in fruit flavour. In short, it delivers lashings of flavour in serious style.

93 POINTS

Mike Bennie - The Wine Front

Shiraz. Just shiraz. This is bold and brassy, an inky, rich red of malt and smoked paprika, dark cherry and ripe plum, mocha and cinnamon toast with a wash of warm texture and a breathiness overall. It fits the bill well, though, balanced in its elements, but a rustic kind of Ocker shiraz that should tickle the guts of those looking for bold and intimacy with hunks of cheddar.