97 Points - Ray Jordan
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.
"97 Points. I’ve tasted some exceptional examples of this wine, which honours Wirra’s founder Robert Strangways Wigley, but I haven’t tasted one any better. Okay, the vintage was outstanding, but it’s been expertly crafted using largely tried and tested winemaking which means getting your hands into the work. The intensity and concentration of the fruit have allowed 30% new French oak contribution. So, it’s both structured and supple with a palate of driving intensity and length. Drink by: 2024-2044. $80."- Ray Jordan, winepilot.com.au.
"95 Points. All French oak (30% new). It’s a fine year in the region, and certainly at this address, with refinement a hallmark across the range. There’s plummy depth, blue and black berries, sour cherry, scrubby and briary notes, iodine, leather, licorice root and a briny black olive note. Oak is on show but still meshes in well, the fruit fulsome but not swooning, making a concise statement but yielding the floor to grape and soil, a fine coil of tannins pulling through a long, savoury finish."- Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion.
