Dalwhinnie's shiraz vines are 30 years old, but even when young they produced outstanding wine. It is no surprise that this vintage should flood the mouth with perfectly ripened black cherry, plum and blackberry fruit, the oak positive but seamless, the tannins likewise. A delicious wine with great mouthfeel, line and length. From: Pyrenees, Victoria; Drink: Now-2020; $58, C, 14.3%; 96 points & Halliday’s Top 100 – The Weekend Australian November 10-11, 2007
Dark purple-blue, bright and shiny. A beautiful perfume of plums, chocolate, vanilla, dark red berries and earth. Intriguing and delightfully fresh. The palate is just amazing with sweet earthy flavours underpinning sweet rich chocolate bramble fruit. The fruit flavour profile carries on long after you swallow the wine. What is also impressive is the balance, it is definitely the most drinkable Dalwhinnie Shiraz to date.
This wine is some of our finest work, the fruit all comes from the hillside vineyards surrounding the cellar door. These magnificent sites have been producing the grapes that make up the Moonambel blend for a long time. We now find that with different clones of the same grape variety a wine can be made which could be described as a nectar of the gods. Don’t miss this one. Cellaring Potential: 6 – 10 years +. David Jones, Winemaker
Dalwhinnie Moonambel Shiraz 2005: This is the way a young Dalwhinnie shiraz should present. It’s a fine-boned, spicy, medium-weight and yet plush wine, full of dark cherried fruit, soy, cedarwood, mint and undergrowth, the finish of it refined and minerally. Composed, balanced, moderately oaked, perfumed and interesting, this is not a weighty wine, but it is an excellent one. Where's all the clumsy oak gone? This is quite beautiful. Drink: 2012-2017. 93 points Campbell Mattinson
Flooded with perfectly ripened plum and blackberry fruit seamlessly woven with oak and tannins; great mouthfeel, line and length. Cork. 14.3% Alcohol. Drink: To 2025; 96/100; James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2008
