Corryton Burge Percival Norman Shiraz 2020

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Sam Kim - Wine Orbit

This is rich and opulent with blackberry, mocha, cake spice, cedar and rich floral aromas on the nose, leading to a sumptuous palate that's filled with delectable fruit flavours backed by layers of supple tannins, finishing superbly long and satisfying.

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Ray Jordan - Winepilot

A burst of punchy dark plum and blackberry invade from the start, while lighter higher end florals infiltrate creating a hi-fidelity aroma of bright fruits. The palate is loaded with vibrant dark plum and earthy blackcurrant with a balancing vanillin oak contribution. Tannins are firm and still tight but there is immense concentration and driving power in the palate. A wine with all the breading to handle extended cellaring.

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Ken Gargett - Winepilot

The wine is a tribute to Percival Norman, great-grandfather, and the founder of the family’s first winery. The wine spent 18 months in French oak hogsheads. A classic and impressive Barossan Shiraz, opaque inky maroon in colour, with aromas of chocolate, dry herbs, leather, vanilla, warm earth, cloves, and animal skins, with blackberries and mulberries. Still very young, with some sappy notes and firm tannins. Taut, focused and layered, offering decent length there is excellent ageing potential here. A wine with ten to twelve years ahead of it.

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Dave Brookes - Halliday Wine Companion

Deep crimson with characters of ripe dark plum, blackberry and blueberry fruits with hints of baking spices, sage, licorice, blueberry pie, olive tapenade, citrus blossom and dark chocolate. There's some nice softly spoken oak complexity on the palate, chalky, chocolatey tannins tugging at the roof of the mouth and a dark-fruited finish that shows solid fruit density and spicy appeal.

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Cassandra Charlick - Winepilot

100% French oak hogsheads and matured for 18 months. Rather compressed and a tight, black-fruited and shiny resinous nose. A stream of oriental spice flows through; cinnamon, black cardamom, and star anise. Thick on the palate, but with lively acid and melt-in-the-mouth, corduroy tannins. Ripe and juicy compressed purple fruits, hibiscus flowers, white florals, dried sage, white pepper and a lining of solid cedar and chocolate nib oak. Nice ripe fruit at its core, just be sure to give this time and space to relax to enjoy fully.

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Jeni Port - Winepilot

Carries its Barossa credentials proudly, combining a weighty, ripe fruit component with an equally impressive amount of oak – 18 months in French barrels – which brings a big personality to the glass. Bramble, cassis, blackberry, allspice, clove, espresso notes, sage, star anise and more, offer a world of dark Shiraz intensity. Dense tannins bring structure and weight, reining in the fruit, oak and alcohol (14.5%). In the end, Percival Norman manages to control what could have easily run out of control. It’s a big, warm wine ride.

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Angus Hughson - Vinous

The sturdy 2020 Shiraz Percival Norman delivers muscular aromas of roasted meats and blueberry with a dusting of leafy spice. It is very dry and unyielding, with woodsmoke and dried meat flavors supported by rustic tannins. The 2020 is definitely a food wine.

Erin Larkin - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2020 Corryton Burge Percival Norman Shiraz leads with rhubarb and raspberry, black licorice and rose petal, blackberry jam and a hint of cherry. In the mouth, the wine is defined by its vessel, in that the oak shapes the tannins through the dry finish. The wine is firm and intense but quite robust in its styling. There are some lovely fruit characters here, but ultimately, it is a wine of the vintage and the vessel. 14.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.