96 Points - Marcus Ellis
With a history dating back to 1894, Wirra Wirra is a family-owned icon situated in the heart of South Australia's McLaren Vale wine region. A wine named in honour of Wirra’s founder Robert Strangways Wigley (RSW), this always delivers a monumental example of McLaren Vale Shiraz with outstanding quality fruit supported by a generous French oak influence.
"96 Points. A mild season, again, and an elegant RSW, though still bristling with dark berries and plum, with some blue fruit echoes. Black tea, dried violet, some dried olive, dark panforte and amaro, licorice powder, old leather and tar. There’s an appealing savouriness to this, and a weight that sits below the fuller side of things, the detail clearly rendered, the tannic architecture resolute but not strident. It’s a very good release."- Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion.
