Certified Museum Release, ex-winery
"From the Coal and Derwent Valleys (Tas) and the Adelaide Hills, hand-picked and pressed to French barriques (62% new, 38% 1yo) for 8 months. The wine is so precise and tightly wound it is hard to imagine it went through 100% mlf, but at the same time, the decision to limit the amount of new oak falls neatly into place. It is developing at such a leisurely pace it is hard to visualise an end point. Gun flint, wet stone, green apple and grapefruit are among the contributors to the seamless flavour stream."
96 points - James Halliday's Wine Companion
"A classic wine with some shrouded aromatics for now, the reduction has not quite played out on the nose so you'll need to decant this to lift the wine out of submission or wait a couple of years. Waxy dried yellow flowers, straw and stony aromas, mineral-flecked crushed rocks, sweet and biscuity, some almond-scented oak and a core of poached nectarine fruit and lime juice. The palate has attractive smooth-wrapped fruit texture and a tight-coiled core of nectarine and grapefruit, chalky texture here, smooth-groomed phenolics to close."
96 points - James Suckling