2012 Hickinbotham The Peake Cabernet Shiraz
97 points James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion
A 52/48% blend, 135 dozen made from the 41-year-old terraced vineyards of the Hickinbotham Vineyard, vinified separately, with 18 months in oak. The colour is magnificently deep, but vivid, purple-crimson, the bouquet exuding black fruits, the full-bodied palate with perfectly weighted fruit, oak and tannins, the length prodigious.
96 points Huon Hooke, The Real Review
Very deep, dense, purple/red colour and a walnutty, oaky bouquet, with a tinge of spice and some pencil-shavings notes as well. The palate is full-bodied and concentrated in flavour, with attack and grip and searing, penetrating intensity. Serious depth and power here. It lingers on and on. A most impressive glass of red, tremendously deep and penetrative and long.
97 points James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion
A 52/48% blend, 135 dozen made from the 41-year-old terraced vineyards of the Hickinbotham Vineyard, vinified separately, with 18 months in oak. The colour is magnificently deep, but vivid, purple-crimson, the bouquet exuding black fruits, the full-bodied palate with perfectly weighted fruit, oak and tannins, the length prodigious.
96 points Huon Hooke, The Real Review
Very deep, dense, purple/red colour and a walnutty, oaky bouquet, with a tinge of spice and some pencil-shavings notes as well. The palate is full-bodied and concentrated in flavour, with attack and grip and searing, penetrating intensity. Serious depth and power here. It lingers on and on. A most impressive glass of red, tremendously deep and penetrative and long.
97 points James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion
A 52/48% blend, 135 dozen made from the 41-year-old terraced vineyards of the Hickinbotham Vineyard, vinified separately, with 18 months in oak. The colour is magnificently deep, but vivid, purple-crimson, the bouquet exuding black fruits, the full-bodied palate with perfectly weighted fruit, oak and tannins, the length prodigious.
96 points Huon Hooke, The Real Review
Very deep, dense, purple/red colour and a walnutty, oaky bouquet, with a tinge of spice and some pencil-shavings notes as well. The palate is full-bodied and concentrated in flavour, with attack and grip and searing, penetrating intensity. Serious depth and power here. It lingers on and on. A most impressive glass of red, tremendously deep and penetrative and long.
