The second vintage of this emerging cool climate style. A beautifully balanced wine, scented with ripe red fruits, florals and spice, seasoned with a touch a cedary oak, deeply flavoured through the rich, peppery palate.

Ravensworth’s Bryan Martin is assistant winemaker to Tim Kirk at Clonakilla, the Canberra region’s (and Australia’s?) master of the Shiraz Viognier blend. Bryan’s wine seems more influenced by the white Viognier than Clonakilla’s version, but its pretty good all the same. Penguin Good Wine Guide 2007

This wine opened up amazingly perfumed, so much so that it smelt like a dessert wine, but given a day of airing it settled right down and turned into something really good. Perfumed aromas of dark fruit, cherry, licorice, spice, jasmine and creamy vanilla oak. Initially plenty of apricot and florals but given time the flamboyant viogner influence retreats discreetly into the background. On the palate medium bodied with a mix of red and black fruits, spice, vanilla cream and some meaty savoury flavours. Beautiful smooth fine grained tannins. It feels lively and well balanced with a supple texture. Long spicy stonefruit finish. Lots of charm and complexity. Rated : 93 Points; Drink : 2008 - 2016; Gary Walsh, Winorama

Smells fabulous. Spicy, fragrant, sweet and interesting. It tastes pretty good too - of dark cherries, soy, plums, woodspice and and slippery-sweet apricots. Beautiful, ripe, fine tannin. Great elegance, structure and balance. This is really bonza. Drink: 2008-2012. 92 points. Campbell Mattinson – The Winefront

Vigorous, juicy, quality wine, full of galloping flavour. It races through the mouth and sucks you back for more (I swear officer, it was the wine's fault). Lots of spice, lots of aniseed-like flavour, flashes of lavender and vanilla and racy, lacy tannins. A complete wine, and a lovely wine. 92/100 Campbell Mittinson The Big Red Wine Book