2005 Australia

Showing a beautiful perfume of crushed red and warm black fruits, this wine is ripe but not overly so on the palate. It’s totally beguiling because of its New World flare combined with Old World purity, and really is rather spectacular.
(Simon Staples, BBR Sales & Marketing Director)

"Always a talking point at a Yarra Yering tasting. Made using indigenous Portugese varieties and fortified very much in a vintage Port style. Think of a vintage port with slightly sweeter fruit and more appealing in its infancy. The Potsorts has come a long way in recent years, and as the vines age, the structure and depth increase and we now see a perfect balance with the alcohol. This should really be left for a decade, and will provide a great alternative to standard vintage Port. Robert Parker is a huge fan!"
Hong Kong Fine Wine Team

"The Underhill vineyard was bought in the late eighties, with the intention of the fruit going into the No 2. However the rich clay content in the soil produced fruit that had an identity all of its own, so the Underhill was born. The Underhill Shiraz is a much broader, muscular style of Shiraz than the Dry Red No 2, not dissimilar to Hermitage, with a huge core of black fruit, leather and black pepper notes. With age, the Underhill is perhaps the most individual wine I have tasted with savoury meat and stewed fruit aromas coming to the fore. This has been a favourite with Berrys' customers for many years now."
Hong Kong Fine Wine Team

Our initial tasting note contains the word ‘incredible’ four times – normally that might be seen as overdoing it, but it probably does stack up in the case of this wine. 97% Shiraz and 3% Viognier taken from vines between 120 and 160 years old, the stage is set for a very special experience. Often favourably tasted alongside great Rhône wines, specifically the more serious single-vineyard Côte-Rôties, this has a very exotic nose with layer upon layer of nuance, and an enormous (but not overdone) mouthfeel.

This wine too is 100% Shiraz and it is the undoubted show-stopper of the range. A more expressive wine would be hard to find from anywhere in the globe: The Factor exhibits a massive body of fruit (cherries, blueberries, everything) that is held together by a firm but seamlessly integrated tannic structure. The finish lasts for almost a full minute and is intense from beginning to end. This wine simply has to give the more famous Australian super-wines a serious run for their money.
(Mark Ross, Fine Wine Commercial Manager)

Elderton’s flagship is the single vineyard Command Shiraz, a wine with serious aging potential, and one with which all other South Australia Shiraz must be compared. The opaque purple/black 2005 Command Shiraz was aged in French and American oak puncheons (500-liter barrels). It offers up a sexy/kinky bouquet of wood smoke, lavender, leather, game, mineral, black raspberry, and blueberry pie. Voluptuous on the palate, complex, and dense, it demands a decade of cellaring after which it should offer hedonists much pleasure through 2035.
Jay S Miller - Wine Advocate - Issue#181 Feb 2009

This wine bears the name of one of the region’s pioneering winemakers who championed single varietal table wines with quality and flavour always at the top of his agenda. It has a nose that gives the drinker a real sense of place; eucalyptus, ripe black fruit and a creamy savouriness in tandem with a saline character which keeps it fresh and appealing. The palate is spicy but tannins are ripe and rounded, there is a lovely mouth feel and the finish is long and lingering, brimming with finesse.
Nick Stewart, BBR Buying Department