"This wine has a beautiful, intense nose: what a communication of variety (shiraz).  There is a prickle of pepper amongst fine, sweet liquoricey spices, drawn over a canvas of textured, ripe, macerated small dark berries.

The complexity is awesome and the wine's poise superb.  The mouth rushes with an amalgam of velvety richness, lashings of layered flavour carried on the fizz, a suggestion of earthiness here, and smudge of ripe tannin there.  Seductive, structured, long Boudoir wine."  Australian Sommelier Magazine, Summer 2005.

"An elegant but complex bouquet leads to a rich spicy / mint palate. As with all traditional sparkling red styles the wine retains some sweetness that will help mellow and richen the wine over its cellaring life. Our sparkling red can be enjoyed as an appertif style in its youth but as it ages and richens it will become ideally suited to game and other rich dishes. Recommended cellaring life at least 10 years."  Winemaker Charlie Melton's notes.