"wickedly good drinking"- Mike Bennie
Wild Duck Creek is a highly acclaimed, family-owned and operated winery in Victoria's Heathcote wine region. Founded by winemaker David 'Duck' Anderson in the late 1970's, the winery achieved international fame in 1997 when their 1997 'Duck Muck' was awarded 99 Points by American Wine Critic Robert Parker.
Wild Duck Creek's Yellow Hammer Hill Shiraz Malbec is "a wine made for pure enjoyment", with the 2022 vintage a blend of Shiraz, Malbec and a small amount of Cabernet Sauvignon. A wine of vibrancy and freshness, this delivers loads of red fruits, raspberry, blackcurrant and plum flavours with some subtle meaty notes spice. With impressive balance, lively acidity, savouriness and grippy tannins, this is a Heathcote red with wide appeal.
"Mostly shiraz with 12% malbec and 6% cabernet sauvignon. A blend of several sites, with lower yields, which seems a theme for WDC. The wine is in French and American oak of various sizes and sees around a third matured in concrete vats. All the slurpy, inky purple here. Sloshes around the joyous freshness of blackberry, currants, cherry and mulberry, all of this dusted with woody and sweet spices, a touch of coffee grounds, some flinty mineral notes and tobacco. Earthy elements in this too, a swish of eucalyptus and mint. Pepper too. It’s wickedly good drinking, superbly balanced and an outstanding entrée to the wines of Wild Duck Creek. 93 Points Tasted: Sept 24.
15.2% alc. $32 Screwcap Drink: 2024 - 2035"- Mike Bennie, The Wine Front.
