Mount Pleasant Op & Oh Shiraz 2024

95 POINTS

Toni Paterson MW - Halliday Wine Companion

Heady, high-toned aromatics, intensely ripe-fruited. Red plum, mulberry, candied cherry and dragonfruit flavours flow through the palate. Plush, warm and engaging. It finishes with a crescendo of flavour on the close.

92 POINTS

Mike Bennie - The Wine Front

A reimagining of the livery here, brought back to a simpler format and very clean and elegant. Ye Old Hill the 1880 plantings, ye Old Paddock from 1921 from cuttings of the former. Quite the surprising softness coupled to sooty, suede tannin profile, lots of pleasingly bitter dark cherry, cola notes, wild raspberry and salted liquorice with a scree of saltbush and sage leaf in tow. It feels inlaid with fancy, smoky, clove-laced oak, the underlying fruit and coolness more just-so and uplifting through the wood seasoning, just for now. Perhaps a touch overtly seasoned at this stage, though that should come to form part of a very sophisticated wine with lots of time. One to hold off from, not for a more sinewy expression, but for the integration to become more mellow and harmonious.