Blue Pyrenees Richardson Reserve Shiraz 2012

Includes 10% cabernet and 1% viognier; matured for 18 months in American oak (90% new). The sheer intensity of the blackberry and blackcurrant fruits has soaked up the oak to an astonishing degree, with no fruitcake/vanilla bean consequences; instead there is a chiselled profile very different to that of the rumbling Colin Richardson, the much loved giant of Melbourne Food Wine circles for decades, never a cross word coming from his lips. Drink By: 2042. Score – 96. (James Halliday, winecompanion.com.au, July 27, 2015)