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[AUElwood]

doing some research and tempted. But having just bought 2018 for $60 is putting the brakes on. It is a great vintage tho...

Need to cellar it for at least 4-5 years to get the best out of it.

Huon Hooke The Real Review - 97 points
Very dense, concentrated, glass-staining purple-red colour; the bouquet likewise luxuriously dense and concentrated, with luscious
blackberry and spice flavours. A whopping wine with tremendous intensity, concentration and drive, and mercifully not top-heavy with coconutty oak. I suspect French oak has been used-very different from the Grey Label Shiraz. Toasted nuts, cocoa powder, chocolate/mocha and fruitcake. A massively proportioned and generously flavoured wine with amazingly fine, soft tannins. A ripping wine-all it needs is time.

TWF Cambell Mattinson 96+ points
Posted on 02 May 2023.
This is from the (single) Medlands Vineyard at Dorrien in the Barossa Valley
Put this up against Grange and it would fundamentally give it a run for it money, pound for pound, style for style. This Platinum goes into 100% French oak of course, whereas Grange goes into American, but all the same there's a mound of fruit, a mound of oak, a wealth of tannin and an emphatic statement being made. In any case this is a fabulous warm-climate wine, thick with fruit, well balanced, churned with tannin, smoky, blackberried, infused with saltbush and layered with various woodsy spices. This wine is all about richness and structure but it has no shortage of length. It will live for decades. (drink 2028-2048)

JH Dave Brookes 97 points
The fruit here is sourced from the Medlands vineyard in Dorrien, in the central Barossa Valley proper. It's a wonderful release from a strong vintage. Harmonious, pure and showing great length of flavour and grace.Pristine aromas of satsuma plum, blackberry, black cherry and blueberry fruits are underlined by hints of fine spice, cedar, licorice, dark chocolate violets, roasting meats and earth. The aromas transpose over onto the palate neatly, seemingly gaining detail and delineation. Silky and elegant is the fruit flow with layers of the finest of tannins, everything poised beautifully before the wine trails off pure and long with the smoothest of dark fruits and gentle oak spice. A cracking release for Wolf Blass.

Winepilot - Ken Garett 96 points
First thoughts are, as good as this is, it would be a waste to open it any time in the next four to five years. This is a wine which desperately needs time and if you want something for now, grab the Grey Label McLaren Vale – you’ll save a heap and drink better. But if you want a wine for the long haul, this is the one. Anyone putting this in their cellar and returning to it in a decade will be thrilled. From the famous Medlands Vineyard in the Dorrien sub-region of the Barossa, this provides stunning Shiraz. The wine is fermented to dryness on skins before pressing and racking to a mix of 80% seasoned and 20% new French oak for an 18 month spell. The colour is opaque maroon and the nose is still very much closed, but gives the impression it is bursting at the seams to come forth and reveal all – it just needs time. There is oodles of flavour, blackberries, coffee grinds, vanillin oak, dark chocolate, soy, beef stock and licorice. The wine has focus and direction, with immense underlying power. Good intensity for the full length, silky tannins and a very long finish. The score will undoubtedly rise in the coming years, as this is a ten to twenty year proposition.

Sounds good if it is comparable to Grange! I still have a couple of Platinum Label 2016 and have not yet tried. Don't know how is it compared to 2021 vintage? The winemaker seems changed.

 

[WrenchHammerMcTool]

BWS 23% cb @ CR, capped at $25 +$5 bonus cb for >$50 (per customer so do think can repeat). Stack with 10% when $/bot near $20.

ADL - nothing of interest

SYD (various)
- Grosset PH Ries. $44.50 $31.76 (x2) ((44.5x2x0.77-5)/2)
- Petaluma Chard $30 $20.60 (x2)
- Leeuwin AS Chard $85.75 $61.03 (x1) (85.75x0.77-5)
- MtP Love Sem $60 $41.2 (x1)
- PL Stonewell Shiraz $60 $41.2 (x1)
- Pierro LTC $24.50 $17.05 (x6)
((24.5x6x.09-25-5)/6)

MELB (limited)
- Yal Signature $51.50 $34.66 (x1)
- Pet HH Riesling $21.20 $14.62 (x6)

PERTH (various)
- Leeuwin AS Chard $85.75 $61.03 (x1)
- Leeuwin AS Shiraz $29 $19.83 (x2) $21.1 (x6)

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[olympicwiz]

Sounds good if it is comparable to Grange! I still have a couple of Platinum Label 2016 and have not yet tried. Don't know how is it compared to 2021 vintage? The winemaker seems changed.

This comparison to Grange is made by Cambell Martinson of The Wine Front, so to be considered seriously. I also have 2016 and 2018 so will try to try 2016 and see. Both of my friends who tried Platinum 2018 were a bit underwhelmed and picked Pirramimma The Earl 2021 over it. I would say that these Platinum wines really need time to shine.
So if you are going to be patient for at least 4-5 years, ideally a decade, then it is probably a compelling buy.

 

[fkcn]

As I’m an IT illiterate, can I ask if it’s possible in the very helpful BWS clearance spreadsheet to get a list of all stores that have a particular wine? Rather than, for example ‘Cecil Hills (+8 others)’. Is there a way to list the 8 others?

 

[I love to travel]

As I’m an IT illiterate, can I ask if it’s possible in the very helpful BWS clearance spreadsheet to get a list of all stores that have a particular wine? Rather than, for example ‘Cecil Hills (+8 others)’. Is there a way to list the 8 others?

Just however over the other stores and it comes up who they are

 

[Ninetails23]

As I’m an IT illiterate, can I ask if it’s possible in the very helpful BWS clearance spreadsheet to get a list of all stores that have a particular wine? Rather than, for example ‘Cecil Hills (+8 others)’. Is there a way to list the 8 others?

View as a desktop site or view from PC and it's easier to see