Howard Park

The Wine Front – Well flavoured and well put together. Blackcurrant, gum leaf, a light spray of herbs and a chocolate-like note. The mid palate has a roundness to it, somewhat unusually for cabernet, but that will only please most red wine drinkers. Good volume. Good mouthfeel. Tick.

James Halliday – Both opulent and fine at once. The bullseye has been hit dead centre here. Oak, fruit, acid and tannin all pull together. Excellent wine, builds its own landscape. Blackcurrant-like flavour, luscious, is slipped with coffee-cream, leather, cigars. Dusty, fruit-filled tannin winds its way through, inexorable, unhurried, a river flowing over smooth long stones. The longer you sit with it, the lower the price seems.

World Wine – “There are wines one sips and make notes and moves on to the next, then there are wines where the notes seem unimportant an intrusion into the thought process, a wine one wants to simply sip, clear thoughts out of the mind and meditate, this is such a wine, if that doesn’t convey the quality of this wine, any lexicon of words won’t 95 points and more to come as it ages $46 really is value” 95 Points | Tony Keys, The Key Report /

The Wine Front – Shiraz grown in both the Mt Barker and Frankland River areas of the Great Southern, almost in equal measure (slightly favouring FR). Yes. It hits the mark nicely. Plums, peppercorns, deli meat and creamy oak. Enough fruit, enough ‘interest’, a silky feel to the palate and just enough ‘oomph’. No hesitation in going here.

The Wine Front – Medium bodied, red and black fruits, five spice, a little liquorice and gum leaf. It’s a lovely thing to drink – refined and seamless – with light tannin, cool acidity, fresh spicy berries, and a cool finish tinged with caramel, sap and spice.