Mount Pleasant OP & OH Shiraz 6pk
Mount Pleasant OP & OH Shiraz 2023
A structural and powerful style of Hunter Shiraz that is a blend of the Old Paddock and Old Hill vineyards made at Mount Pleasant since the 1960s.
Mount Pleasant OP & OH Shiraz 2023
"80% Old Paddock, 20% Old Hill.
MB: There were blocks planted after initial plantings but this wine now is only the original blocks involved. Or again.
A refreshing, frisky shiraz with good concentration, some ferrous notes, clove, cinnamon toast, dark cherry, choc-raspberry and faint cola characters. Has a bit of sinew and chew to texture, refreshing, pleasingly bitter acidity, a touch of blood orange. Even, balanced, energetic. Very good. 94 points
KS: Aromatic red and black fruit, orange peel, maraschino cherry. Ripe and sweet-toned but cool in flavours. A chewy mid-palate with fine-grained but textural tannins and creamed coffee core. Sticky too with an iron-like edge and finish. Doesn’t show as much finesse and fine detail as the others of the 2023 release but the bar is high. Maybe needs time. 93+points
GW: Dark fruit, liquorice/aniseed, iodine, but also has spice and gentle earthiness. Medium to full-bodied, plenty of weight, and there’ a lot of rich dark fruit here, some red, ferrous, shows some nutty oak, but the fruit is good with it. Finish is long and firm. Very good. 95 points." 95 Points, The Wine Front
"Medium-deep purple-red hue with an earthy, faintly smoky/reductive bouquet, the palate medium-full bodied and softly tannic, with ample tannins which are silky smooth and caressing. It has yet to show great complexity but there is potential. It responded well to time in the glass." 93 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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