Description
Hickinbotham’s Brooks Road Shiraz is one of McLaren Vale’s most serious single-vineyard reds — from old vines on the Clarendon plateau where the altitude and ancient soils give Shiraz a precision and freshness the valley floor can’t match. The 2017, from one of the region’s better recent vintages, shows dark fruit, iron, spice and a long, structured finish. Needs time.
93 points, Vinous – “Brilliant purple. Heady, mineral-tinged dark berry liqueur, vanilla, incense and candied flowers on the deeply perfumed nose. Velvety, seamless and sweet on the palate, offering juicy blueberry and cherry cola flavors braced by a spine of juicy acidity. A spicy note lingers on the impressively long finish, which is given shape by supple, harmonious tannins.”
