S.C. Pannell
Koomilya McLaren Vale Shiraz
McLaren Vale, Fleurieu, South Australia, Australia
Five years on and everything remains in its right place. Rich and complex with lovely structure line and length. Many years left in it, but probably in peak Sri king window now. Great stuff.
Five years on and everything remains in its right place. Rich and complex with lovely structure line and length. Many years left in it, but probably in peak Sri king window now. Great stuff.
Oct 7th, 202312 months on and looking as good if not better as before. Voluptuous and enticing on a cool Ballarat evening. Awesome ‘carpentry’ beneath the flesh! Lovely.
12 months on and looking as good if not better as before. Voluptuous and enticing on a cool Ballarat evening. Awesome ‘carpentry’ beneath the flesh! Lovely.
Apr 28th, 2018
Zoe’s fav at Lotus Barangaroo in Sydney
Zoe’s fav at Lotus Barangaroo in Sydney
Mar 22nd, 2018
Stunning ! An Australian Shiraz with a lot of complexity, almost in a Rhône Style, with spices, pepper, meat juice and plums aromas.. what a great discovery !
Stunning ! An Australian Shiraz with a lot of complexity, almost in a Rhône Style, with spices, pepper, meat juice and plums aromas.. what a great discovery !
Jun 5th, 2017
So reductive at first, then BAM! Floral, rich, fruity, meaty, earthy. Intense, but not in your typical Vale sense. So good.
Note: From Winefront
Steve first walked into an old 30-acre vineyard in McLaren Vale in 1994 and immediately fell in love with it; a few years ago he managed to purchase it. The wines from the property – on Amery Road, surrounded by native bush – will be released under the Koomilya name. The wine reviewed here comes from three blocks, one planted in 1970 (to gewürztraminer, then grafted to shiraz in the early 1990s), the other two planted in the early 2000s. So they’re not particularly old vines but they are mature, and they grow on a particularly fine site. This wine went into all large-format French oak. 852 dozen were made.
So reductive at first, then BAM! Floral, rich, fruity, meaty, earthy. Intense, but not in your typical Vale sense. So good.
Note: From Winefront
Steve first walked into an old 30-acre vineyard in McLaren Vale in 1994 and immediately fell in love with it; a few years ago he managed to purchase it. The wines from the property – on Amery Road, surrounded by native bush – will be released under the Koomilya name. The wine reviewed here comes from three blocks, one planted in 1970 (to gewürztraminer, then grafted to shiraz in the early 1990s), the other two planted in the early 2000s. So they’re not particularly old vines but they are mature, and they grow on a particularly fine site. This wine went into all large-format French oak. 852 dozen were made.
