Deep garnet‑purple in the glass. The nose reveals dark plum, black cherry, cocoa‑dust, crushed ironstone and a hint of eucalyptus leaf. The palate is bold and structured with firm, layered tannins, savoury spice, smoked herb and liquorice undertones, finishing long, dry and minerally.
Critic Reviews
96 POINTS
Marcus Ellis - Halliday Wine Companion
It’s so nice to see these Block wines consistently show true to site, while also naturally fluctuating with the vintage. The DC is always the most traditional of feel – of intensity and fruit flavour – of the triad of wines, but it’s as effortless, as delightfully free of artefact as the other wines. Deep of fruit, brooding, but never sweet or rich with it. Just a wine of thrumming presence with a bloody ferrousness, feeling of those ironstone-laced soils, old vines and that distinctive Upper Tintara bush block. There’s a character in all the wines that feels of that place, of the earth and the bush in the warmth of summer, but not of eucalypt, of mintiness, just of the scent of that serene place. An excellent wine.
95 POINTS
Erin Larkin - Robert Parker Wine Advocate
The 2022 Koomilya DC Block Shiraz is silky and exotic, an interesting counterpoint to the GT Block tasted alongside. Here, the fruit weight feels much lighter and the flavor is more on the fruit spectrum than the spice spectrum. These are interesting wines, because the tannins feel as if they are going to be hard and yet, despite their abundance, they are not. There is levity here, and it works so well. 14% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.
94 POINTS
Gary Walsh - The Wine Front
More time on skins than the JC block, 23 days and 15 days respectively. Also aged in ten year old oak vat, as opposed to four year old for the JC. The 2022 vintage is a little more frisky and edgy than 2021. This has a mahogany and walnut richness, black fruit, mint and liquorice, a gum leaf and dried herb perfume. It’s an inky wine, rich in silty tannin with some orange tang to acidity, quite some exotic spice and floral mouth-perfume, walnut and dried herb, with a bold finish of excellent length. Roast chestnut and bitter dark chocolate orange finishes it off. Specific. Good.
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Tasting Notes
Deep garnet‑purple in the glass. The nose reveals dark plum, black cherry, cocoa‑dust, crushed ironstone and a hint of eucalyptus leaf. The palate is bold and structured with firm, layered tannins, savoury spice, smoked herb and liquorice undertones, finishing long, dry and minerally.