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Greenock Creek Shiraz Alice's Vineyard 2020

Vintage: 2021

$49.99

Rated 95 Points James Halliday

2020 was the second in two very warm, very dry vintages in the Barossa, but despite the conditions, I have found many of the wines to show vitality and energy in their fruit spectrums. The fruit for this 2020 Shiraz Alice's is from Seppeltsfield in the Barossa, and the high-octane, high-alcohol style really catapults this wine into the stratosphere. What I will say, with high-quality wines imbued with high alcohol, it is possible for them to achieve a strange kind of LOUD balance, as this wine has. All things are in place, but this a boisterous, brooding, muscular and resin-y example of Barossa Shiraz. It will drink beyond the 10-year window I have outlined; however, I look for fresh/primary fruit in wine, and this10-year mark is where I determine that will morph into a more tertiary space.

Rated 91/100 Wine Advocate

Professional Scores

95

Greenock Creek wines always present themselves as intensely concentrated examples of their particular slice of the western Barossa. Initially, there is a quick blast of blackberry pastille in this year's release, which gives way to opulent blackberry and cherry fruits with hints of baking spices, dark chocolate-dipped raspberries and pressed purple flowers. If you peer deep into the distance, there are some liminal leathery/mahogany notes, too, wrapping the ripe, long tannins in a warm embrace. As always, mighty impressive stuff.

James Halliday

95

Greenock Creek wines always present themselves as intensely concentrated examples of their particular slice of the western Barossa. Initially, there is a quick blast of blackberry pastille in this year's release, which gives way to opulent blackberry and cherry fruits with hints of baking spices, dark chocolate-dipped raspberries and pressed purple flowers. If you peer deep into the distance, there are some liminal leathery/mahogany notes, too, wrapping the ripe, long tannins in a warm embrace. As always, mighty impressive stuff.

James Halliday
750ml