Though its use on our labels has long been banished, you’ll still hear wine types of a certain age pine for “claret”. It’s partly nostalgia, and partly a projection, wondering what the future holds for medium-bodied Australian blends built from Bordeaux varieties. Brian Croser is old enough to remember the glory days, and visionary enough to see where such wines should be headed. This delivers mulberries, black cherries, plums and a splash of fragrant spice, the whole lot cuddled by deft oak and fine-grained tannins. Reviewed November 2025.
95 Points
