"Given the fruit is off the estate and from three other properties, this is an excellent drink, in a finer style. A gorgeous purple-red hue and so fragrant with florals and red fruits (from raspberries to currants) all doused with baking spices and a sprinkle of black pepper.
The palate is barely mid-weighted yet finely tuned with silty tannins and acidity that gives life.
Up there as one of the best O’Riadas to date." - Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion
"This is top notch. It has flavour and length, but it’s the spread of that flavour and the tannin that comes with it that makes you sit up and take notice.
Cherry-plum, five spice, anise, mint, dark soy and florals, with a talc-like feel to the tannin and a general feeling of etching. Super release of O’Riada." - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front