Montrose Black Shiraz 2011

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January 15, 2014

Montrose Black Shiraz 2011 (Mudgee, NSW)
14%, Screwcap, $32
Source: Sample
www.robertoatley.com.au

Montrose is a bit of a forgotten icon in the world of Australian wine, it’s reputation built on some lovely rich reds of the 90s that even now look very healthy (Mudgee reds can do that).

Now under the stewardship of the well-resourced Oatley family Montrose and clearly back on form, with this Black Shiraz a wine that harks back to the glory days.

Dark black purple in colour and deeply coloured, this is rich and fleshy, the oak filling out the mid palate with glycerol richness even though the wine is ultimately dry.

There is a real purple fruit richness to this that is quite delicious – rather like Hunter 11s in that plum skin fruit and plushness. Has that black earth Mudgee grunt too with little of the awkwardness of Mudgee mud.

Win. Will look even better in 5 years time. Maybe a fraction oaky, but a smart wine.

Drink: 2014-2020
Score: 17.8/20, 92/100+
Would I buy it? In five years time that would be a yes.

2011, Mudgee, Shiraz, Wine

Andrew Graham was once voted the 23rd most trusted wine critic on the planet. A WCA Journalism Young Gun now old hack with 25yrs as a buyer, judge, journalist, marketer and too much more.

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