2023 Mount Pleasant Mountain A

96 POINTS

Q Wine Reviews

Adrian Sparks is really lighting things up with these Mount Pleasant releases. This Mountain A is an absolutely brilliant Shiraz and I'm in love. Red fruits and berries cling to blueberries and mulberries that lead the way. Add some mandarin peel, pan juices, Campari and red currants. Purple flowers add lift and an attractive perfume. Seductively silky and polished, super fine tannins show some of that synonymous Hunter Valley earthiness. Incredibly glorious, I adore its medium-bodied shape. Classy Hunter. Drink to ten years+.

96 POINTS

Gary Walsh - The Wine Front

Purple fruit, ripe raspberry, dried roses. A bit more grunt and weight than the Mountain C, thicker tannin structure, some liquorice richness, and a ferrous edge, with a long finish of super length. Such power in a medium-bodied wine, give it some time.

96 POINTS

Erin Larkin - Wine Advocate

The 2023 'Mountain A' Medium Bodied Dry Red is all brambly raspberries, tobacco, cinnamon cassia, red apple skins, red snake lollies, paprika and cherries. In the mouth, the wine is supple and fine, shaped by a web of tannin that is both pliable and chewy. It gives the wine a bouncy feel, and the length of flavor endorses the quality through the finish. This is a superb wine that is built for the long haul. It is excellent and powerful but not heavy. 14% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.

95 POINTS

Mike Bennie - The Wine Front

Quite an intense and brooding red – dark, blueberry, mulberry compote with green olive, saline minerality, clove-cinnamon brown spice, dried leafiness and an almost dried seaweed, umami-like quality. Potent. Tannins shimmy in a suede haze over the wine, tightening gently but with direction. Pitch perfect medium weight too. Serious, complex, very good.