2022 Dune Wine Blewitt Springs Shiraz

95 POINTS

James Halliday - Halliday's Wine Companion

Uses a mixture of whole-bunch, whole-berry and crushed fruit, matured in used oak for 12 months. Deeply coloured, full, rich, velvety black cherry, blackberry, spice all-sorts, tannins so round they disappear in the black fruits. Oh so easy to swallow if that wasn't forbidden.

94 POINTS

Gary Walsh - The Wine Front

Perfumed, nutty, meaty, black fruit. Medium to full-bodied, again quite umami with some nori flavour, choc-hazelnut and juicy dark cherry, dry spice, fleshy and creamy tannin, good length with it. Quite ferrous, but also floral. Lovely wine. I often ponder the absurdity of assigning scores to wines, so this is either 93 or 94 points. I can’t quite decide.

91 POINTS

Ned Goodwin - Halliday's Wine Companion

A meld of whole berries and a smidgeon of whole bunches spending 12 months in French oak (10% new). A controlled flow of reductive tension spiels iodine, nori and violet, while the Vale's punchy blueberry and darker fruit allusions are underlain by dried lavender and smoked meats. This is at once classy, full-weighted, generous and approachable, vying for the best value wine of regional class.