An exceptional parcel of fruit from the Frankland River Region has produced an outstanding full-bodied wine. Delicious rich fruit flavours of black cherries, stewed plums and licorice. Finishes with soft lingering tannins. This wine will benefit from cellaring for 5+ years.
High alcohol wines are often grouped together as if they all taste the same - so that we’re all then supposed to fall into the pro or anti classes accordingly. The absurdity of this is highlighted by a wine like this Flametree Reserve. Well, as far as I’m concerned, this is a monumentally appealing wine. It’s ridiculously smooth and rich with tarry, cherry-plummed fruit flavour, and yet it maintains its keen sense of regional spice. It’s fragrant and alive, fine in its tannin structure and warm through the finish - in a positive way. It takes all kinds, and this kind is lovely. Rated : 94 Points Alcohol : 15.5% Price : $49 Closure : Screwcap Drink : 2009 - 2016 By Campbell Mattinson; The Wine Front