Hentley Farm Clos Otto Shiraz 2009
-
${ score.name }${ score.score }
${ score.link } Score${ score.score }${ score.text }
Product Code AU-517
By James Halliday, 96 Points
An incredibly lifted nose of sweet cherry combining with mint chocolate, mulberry, violets and eucalypt. The front and mid palate are filled with sweet cherry, luscious blackberry and blackcurrant and also showing the varietal mint exhibited on the nose. The back palate is showing grainy tannins, lifted oregano spice and further fruit intensity. Overall the palate is displaying the ideal balance for Barossa Cabernet of fruit sweetness, varietal herbaceousness and complex/integrated oak.
By Wine Advicate , Lisa Perrotti-Brown, 96 Points
The Clos Otto fruit is sourced from a small, eastern-facing block within the Hentley Farm estate. Matured for 22 months in a combination of new (90%) and old French barrels, 2009 “Clos Otto” Shiraz has a very deep purple-black color and aromas of macerated blackberries, mulberries and creme de cassis over allspice, vanilla, milk chocolate, toast and hung meat. Concentrated and richly fruited in the mouth, it has a solid structure of firm, finely grained tannins and crisp acid with a long finish of spice and dark fruit layers. Approachable now, it should drink best 2013-2025+