(90% new French oak) Opaque ruby. Smoky dark berry, cherry-cola, licorice and sassafras on the nose, with a lively mineral quality adding urgency. Gains complexity with air, picking up a floral nuance along with sexy Asian spice character. Fleshy and sweet in the mouth, with powerful dark fruit and floral pastille flavors supported by a firm mineral spine. Leaves a sweet trail of red and dark berries behind on the strikingly persistent, pure finish.
The 2007 Syrah Hickinbotham has slightly muted aromas of mineral, underbrush, spice box, blackberry, and blueberry. On the palate it displays a stern personality with plenty of underlying structure and some austerity. It has excellent balance, depth, and length which will be fully exhibited in another 4-6 years.
Drinking Window: 2009 - 2015
Reviewer Name: Jay S Miller
Review Date: 22nd December 2009
Ripe and fresh-tasting, with beautifully focused blackberry, plum and white pepper flavors, picking up a meaty, corned beef note as the finish sails on against lightly prickly tannins. Drink now through 2020. 600 cases made. -HS
Drinking Window: 2011 - 2016
Review Date: 1st July 2012
The 2007 Hickinbotham comes across as tight and in need of additional cellaring. Right now, it's showing only some subtle oak and spice framing dark fruit and earthy, savory notes. With its apparent richness and depth, give it until 2015 or so to come around, then drink it over the next 10 years.
Drinking Window: 2011 - 2016
Review Date: 1st March 2010
2007 Clarendon Hickinbotham Syrah The tannin comes first, but then the fruit comes on, with a fresh cranberry and floral blueberry flavor. This is dense, though not quite as heavy as some of the other '07s from Clarendon Hills. A toasty, black shiraz suited to several years of bottle age, and then to grilled lamb.
Drinking Window: 2011 - 2016
Review Date: 1st October 2010
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- Year 2007
- Colour Red
- Country Australia
- Region South Australia
- Sub Region NA
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- Pack Size 6x75cl
- ABV 14.50°
- Drinking Window 2011 - 2016
- Drinking Recommendation Drink Up
- LWIN 100162020070600750
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(90% new French oak) Opaque ruby. Smoky dark berry, cherry-cola, licorice and sassafras on the nose, with a lively mineral quality adding urgency. Gains complexity with air, picking up a floral nuance along with sexy Asian spice character. Fleshy and sweet in the mouth, with powerful dark fruit and floral pastille flavors supported by a firm mineral spine. Leaves a sweet trail of red and dark berries behind on the strikingly persistent, pure finish.
93 Wine AdvocateThe 2007 Syrah Hickinbotham has slightly muted aromas of mineral, underbrush, spice box, blackberry, and blueberry. On the palate it displays a stern personality with plenty of underlying structure and some austerity. It has excellent balance, depth, and length which will be fully exhibited in another 4-6 years.
Drinking Window: 2009 - 2015
Reviewer Name: Jay S Miller
Review Date: 22nd December 2009
92 Wine SpectatorRipe and fresh-tasting, with beautifully focused blackberry, plum and white pepper flavors, picking up a meaty, corned beef note as the finish sails on against lightly prickly tannins. Drink now through 2020. 600 cases made. -HS
Drinking Window: 2011 - 2016
Review Date: 1st July 2012
91 Wine EnthusiastThe 2007 Hickinbotham comes across as tight and in need of additional cellaring. Right now, it's showing only some subtle oak and spice framing dark fruit and earthy, savory notes. With its apparent richness and depth, give it until 2015 or so to come around, then drink it over the next 10 years.
Drinking Window: 2011 - 2016
Review Date: 1st March 2010
90 Wine & Spirit Magazine2007 Clarendon Hickinbotham Syrah The tannin comes first, but then the fruit comes on, with a fresh cranberry and floral blueberry flavor. This is dense, though not quite as heavy as some of the other '07s from Clarendon Hills. A toasty, black shiraz suited to several years of bottle age, and then to grilled lamb.
Drinking Window: 2011 - 2016
Review Date: 1st October 2010
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Something of a maverick estate found in the heart of McLaren Vale, Clarendon Hills is a small but influential family-run winery. Today, we are delighted to offer a small parcel of their leading wine - the utterly perfect Astralis 2010.
Founded by Roman Bratasiuk, a biochemist by trade, in 1990, Clarendon Hills is a pioneering producer of Australian fine wine. This legendary estate is still shepherded to greatness by this self-taught winemaker, whose obsession with the great wines of the world has seen him produce one of them!
Deciding to focus on single-vineyard cuvées in order to convey the incredible terroirs available to him, Bratasiuk is determined to allow his wines to convey a sense of place. Thoughts of monstrously sweet, extracted, mass-produced Aussie Shiraz should be as far as possible from anyone's mind whilst considering Clarendon Hills. They are simply sublime expressions of varietal and regions.
The 1994 and 1996 vintages are in the "Greatest 1000 Wines of All Time 1727-2006".
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