Sevenhill St Aloysius Shiraz Cabernet 2023
- 93
- $60
- Drink by: 2025-2032
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Ripe spiced plum, bay leaf, cured meat, mulberry and blackberry lead the aromas. A swirl of the glass unlocks graphite, mint, milk chocolate, and black pepper. There’s whispers of camphire, too. There’s good intensity to the palate, which is packed with mint chocolate, plum, graphite, mulberry and bay leaf again. The wine’s juicy fruit weight is nicely offset by non-fruit complexity and firm structure in the form of fine gravelly tannins and minty acidity. Good evenness and length through the finish. There’s nice complexity here, in an expression of the blend that harnesses fruit power, oak and herbaceousness nicely.
Tom Kline is a wine writer, reviewer, presenter, and educator based in Victoria, Australia. He is the Australian correspondent for the internationally respected publications Jasper Morris Inside Burgundy and Jane Anson Inside Bordeaux, where he highlights the top tier of Australian wine for a global audience. Tom also writes for leading outlets including Decanter (UK), Wine Spectator (US), and Halliday Magazine, among others. An experienced wine show judge and WSET educator, he has authored several consumer-focused wine courses aimed at making wine more accessible and engaging. In 2023, Tom was awarded Best Published Feature Article or Wine Column at the prestigious Wine Communicator Awards, presented by Wine Communicators of Australia.
