Magpie Hill Reserve Shiraz 2020
Lovely colour, complex nose, and lots of flavour. This was a drought year which produced amazing intensity in the fruit. Structured tannins with soft shoulders make a very dignified wine. The iron fist in a velvet glove! Age 20 years. 750ml.
HERBS AND SPICE • PLUMS • SOFT TANNINS
Accolades
96 points, James Halliday Wine Companion
If you've been following this vineyard, you'll be expecting great things from this wine, and well you should. The cool-climate Porongurup vineyard has been responsible for a number of startlingly impressive cuvées over the years and this is no exception. Silky texture in the mouth, plump, concentrated black fruit and layers of sweet spice. It's a marvel. Love the plum through the finish.
95 points, The Real Review
Very deep, dark red-purple colour, the bouquet concentrated, dark-fruited and laced with spicy oak. The wine is concentrated also in flavour; powerful, full bodied and strongly structured, with lashings of firm but ripe tannins, the whole thing powering long into an extended aftertaste. This is young and bold, will benefit from a little cellar time before drinking, and promises to age long-term.
Appearance: dark deep purple magenta
Aroma: satsuma plum, dark black cherries, dark chocolate, cedar shavings, violet floral lift, delicate nutmeg oak
Palate: bright rich blue and black forest berry fruits; mulberry and boysenberry with plum and juicy cherry skin; dark chocolate and molasses tones wrapped in firm yet finely powerful tannins; good fresh acid core, framed by complete and seamless tannin with all the elements in fine balance to give great aging potential
A warm, dry year with extreme drought conditions created a tiny crop of small, thick-skinned berries of great intensity, flavour, and structure and an opaquely dark colour. All harvested fruit was of Magpie Hill Reserve quality, no Single Vineyard wine produced.
- Vintage 2020
- Alcohol 14.1%
- Vineyard 100% Estate Grown
- Varietal Shiraz
- Bottling date August 2019
- Region Great Southern, Western Australia
- Sub-region Porongurup
- Residual sugar <2 g/l
- pH 3.63
- Acidity 5.3 g/l