Mount Pleasant Maurice O'Shea Shiraz 2023

Mount Pleasant's Langtons Classified icon wine is a best barrel blend that will reward the collectors, the connoisseurs and all those who love wine.

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Mount Pleasant Maurice O'Shea Shiraz 2023

"Maurice O'Shea is the flagship blend of the best parcels from the finest vineyards of the Mount Pleasant estate. For this vintage, the vineyards included the 1880 vines of Old Hill and the Rosehill 1946 vines, with all grapes hand picked, destemmed and sorted, leaving the whole berries to soak before fermentation. The result is a stylish, medium-weight shiraz with incredible flavour intensity and an inherent lightness and energy. Beautifully supple, it bursts with warm strawberry fruit, enhanced by nuanced, fragrant oak. The mid-palate has impressive weight, while the intense, succulent flavours on the finish are captivating and memorable. Though it will cellar for decades, its remarkable approachability makes it hard to resist opening now." 98 Points, Toni Paterson, Halliday Wine Companion

"Wow, just wow. You know the blending bench has had tireless hours of tasting and conversation for this wine. The icon, the flagship, the cumulation of vintage and pedigree. It is a work of art, in every sense, and captures the magic of Mount Pleasant. Waves and curls of raspberry puree, rosehip and Alpine strawberry. A hint of Kirsch and bilberry. An undeniable sandy clay earthiness is tangible in each sip followed by white pepper, billy tea tannins and carried by eloquent and effortless acidity. It’s seamless to be quite frank and hard to imagine how the $ figure covers it. This will make you proud to be living in the state of New South Wales let alone the continent. At an early pre release this is drinking stonkingly well and will continue to evolve in ways the mind can only imagine. A magical mystical vintage of Maurice O’Shea!" 98 Points, Shanteh Wale, Winepilot

"Winemaking is hard enough without ghosts watching over your shoulder, but somehow Adrian Sparks takes that extra pressure and produces diamonds. Working many of the same vineyards that made Maurice O’Shea Australia’s most famous winemaker almost a century ago, Sparks merges tradition with contemporary vision to sculpt this sublimely elegant, minutely detailed homage to a legend. 14% alcohol" 97 points, Nick Ryan's Best Wines of 2024, The Australian Magazine

The famed estate of Mount Pleasant has a well-storied past, founded by the visionary of Australian wine, Maurice O’Shea. It includes plantings of ancestral vines of 1880, as well as Australia’s oldest mother vine Pinot Noir planted in 1921 by O’Shea himself. It is the home of some of the first fine wines of Australia, and with just five winemakers over its 100-year history, it has maintained its status as a benchmark of the Hunter classics, Shiraz and Semillon.

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