Various Vineyards, SA A real smoothie. Dark, rich and ultra sophisticated featuring an attractive bouquet of red berry fruits, peppery spice and mint. On the medium bodied palate, this wine has juicy sweet fruit flavours with a balanced oak character, soft mouthfeel and a lingering finish. This is a wine made for early enjoyment.
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(Pyrenees, Vic)“Taltarni is hitting new heights with this vineyard selection of shiraz and cabernet. It has depth and concentration, but elegance is paramount. Dark-berry, cedar and bacon aromas, with a faint hint ofeucalyptus Fine grained tannins are ample but measured.” Gourmet Traveller Wine, 2004
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(Riverland, SA)Herald Sun - 4.5 Star Review - 14.11.2006′The various reds and whites under the Butterfly Ridge label may be simple, but they represent strong value for money and are invariably friendly, approachable, fresh, clean and fault-free. As such, they clearly beat most cleanskins at the same price and are widely available on the discount circuit. The current shiraz cabernet is typical of the sound quality on offer across the range. Quaff awayStyle Magazine - September 11, 2006 - Qld, Australia, Tyson Stelzer’Angove’s Butterfly Ridge Shiraz Cabernet 2005 - I taste 100 wines under for every one that I recommend to you, and for seven bucks you won’t find more pure red berry fruit or crunchy, spicy flavours anywhere. You’d better spend your change on a second bottle because you’re gonna need it!’
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VariousThe 1978 Koonunga hill is still drinkable today - such is the style that this wine is endowed with, even at release, tho current versions dont require so many years to become drinkable. This wine follows the formula of rich ripe plum fruits, moccha oak and a full generous, Penfoldian palate.Drink with BBQ steak, jacket potatoes and a seafood salad.
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(South Australia)’My first impression is that it’s been built to last. It’s not a show pony, it’s not flamboyant, the oak is seamlessly integrated and the wealth of fruit is shy at putting its best step forward. Patience is required here, but it is a very good wine. Brooding, tight, grainy, dusty blackcurrant and tobacco and plums, which with time also offer up the scent of violets, even pepper. The tannin structure is significant, but appropriate to what the wine has in store - and it’s also worth noting that as wine, it smells and tastes cabernet dominant. It will definitely cellar well, and cellaring is what it has been built for - not immediate gratification. Give this a dozen years in a cool dark place, and it should be a top echelon Bin 389. Drink: 2013-2021. 94 points.’ Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
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(Barossa, SA)The quintessential blend, the Signature is an icon of the Barossa, still built in the burly, no holes barred style of the 70’s. The result? A classicallly full bodied red, which makes other modern reds look like has beens. Will live for decades..
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