Description / Reviews
"The Crayères Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz 2023 is our sixth vintage of this classic Australian blend following the long-established tradition of fine Australian Cabernet Shiraz wines – and it is also the Thirteenth vintage of our Cabernet Sauvignon dominant release. 2023 was a cool and wet vintage creating the perfect framework for the production of very fine Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz wines in Wrattonbully. The wine is more delicate that its predecessors, with very perfumed nose of liquorice and cassis, and a balanced palate of dark berry fruit and spice." - Winemaker Notes
"This is the team’s sixth release from the Crayères Vineyard of a Cabernet Shiraz, the great Aussie red blend, although the 13th release of a Cabernet dominant blend. The wine spent 14 months maturing in French oak barrels, 18% of which were new. The blend is 65% Cabernet Sauvignon and 35% Shiraz. 3,050 six-packs made. Dark mauve in colour, this is a seamless and appealing style, a really impressive wine. The nose gives us red fruits, notably cherries and cranberries, with aniseed, bay leaves, florals and kirsch notes. Oak integration is exemplary and there is bright acid, fine balance and serious length here while notes of sour cherries emerge at the finish. Enjoy this over the next 10 to 15 years." - 95 Points, Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot
"Medium to deep ruby in colour opening up with quite beautiful aromatics of graphite red earth backed by sweet blackcurrant fruit laced with spice. Medium weight with a firm tannin backbone that holds everything in check – blackberry, gravel and tarry flavours delivered in a package that shows genuine finesse balance before building to a perfumed finish. Drink 2028–2035." - 94 Points, Angus Hughson, Andrew Caillard MW & Lisa Cardelli, The Vintage Journal
