"Ripe, smooth and generous, a velvety wine, with layers of blackberry, cherry, herb and spice flavors that recede slowly on the finish. Has the finish to encourage cellaring. Drink now through 2010. –HS"  91 pts, The Wine Spectator, Dec. 15, 1999.

"This is a hefty wine with considerable color, abundant quantities of toasty American oak, and full-bodied, robust, muscular personalities. Lots of complexity emerges from the 1995 Signature, a blend of 59% Cabernet Sauvignon and 41% Shiraz, aged for 28 months in American wood. Low acidity and its overripe fruit characteristics match up nicely with the lavish use of American wood. A big, thick, juicy wine, it can be drunk now and over the next 12-15 years."  90 pts, Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate, Feb. 2000.

"Although it has a slightly pumped-up oakiness, this Signature blend is a more retrained, leafier expression of the style. Its lightly spicy aroma of fragrant wild berries and vanilla oak precedes a fractionally hollow and cedary palate which finishes soft, fine-grained and smooth and whose berry fruit has a faintly capsicum-like note. (17.2, Drink 2003-2007)." 90 pts, Jeremy Oliver On Australian Wine.

"Medium red-purple; the bouquet is clean, moderately intense, with well-balanced fruit and oak. The same balance and finesse runs through the palate, with sweet berry and chocolate fruit, fine tannins and appealing vanillin oak." James Halliday's Australian Wine Companion.