Mount Pleasant Mountain A 6pk
Mount Pleasant Mountain A (Medium Bodied Dry Red) 2023
The Mountain Series was originally created by Maurice O'Shea as his way of classifying wines by their style rather than their variety. The 'Mountain A' is the medium-bodied dry red Shiraz ('C' was classified light-bodied and 'D' full-bodied).
Mount Pleasant Mountain A (Medium Bodied Dry Red) 2023
"This is from the 1965 Rosehill plantings. It would formerly have been the 1965 Rosehill bottling, so you’re now getting a sweeter deal on pricing. (GW)
MB: Quite an intense and brooding red – dark, blueberry, mulberry compote with green olive, saline minerality, clove-cinnamon brown spice, dried leafiness and an almost dried seaweed, umami-like quality. Potent. Tannins shimmy in a suede haze over the wine, tightening gently but with direction. Pitch perfect medium weight too. Serious, complex, very good. 95 points
KS: A bit quiet at first. Strawberries, red cherries and orange peel, Campari, ruby grapefruit. The texture is what speaks here, medium-weight with a deep flavour stain mainly in the mid-palate, it’s bloody and meaty, with some dead flower/sous-bois character. Medicinal cherry, boot paste, porcini mushrooms, hazelnut sponge cake. I like it, it’s red fruit-scented and black fruit-flavoured. Very nice but somehow I can’t quite push it to 95. 94 points
GW: Purple fruit, ripe raspberry, dried roses. A bit more grunt and weight than the Mountain C, thicker tannin structure, some liquorice richness, and a ferrous edge, with a long finish of super length. Such power in a medium-bodied wine, give it some time. 96 points." 96 Points, The Wine Front
"Medium-full purple-red colour; high-toned dusty loamy, peppery aromas, slightly hidden from view at present, while the palate is big and bold, with solid structure and straightforward but promising young-shiraz flavour. There is a deep core of sweet ripe fruit that is partly concealed by the tannins at this point in time. Long persistence; potential plus." 94 Points, Huon Hooke, The Real Review
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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