Jim Barry The Armagh Shiraz 2016

- 97 Punkte Robert Parkers WINE ADVOCATE, Joe Czerwinski: "My pick of the recently bottled vintages, the 2016 The Armagh Shiraz shows a bit more obvious oak (simply because of its youth) but also a wonderful taut tension between ripeness and acidity. The fruit here is a bit redder in profile, leaning more toward raspberries than blackberries, while still being fully ripe. Full-bodied and supple, it finishes cedary, intense and long, adding in complex, lingering spice notes."

- 99 Punkte JAMES SUCKLING: "This is a very impressive and regal cabernet with a rich array of ripe blackcurrants, mulberries and blackberries on offer, as well as a cedary and gently chalky edge. There’s a very rich and powerful core of deep-set fruit, as well as a thread of rich chocolate flavor and a very polished, assertive core of tannin that holds super long. Try from 2022. Screw cap."

- 99 Punkte DECANTER, Jane Anson: “This is a brilliant wine that makes you sit up and pay attention. Concentrated and mouthwatering with spicy licorice root and black cherries. Needs a couple more years to fully open but already it packs a punch without being overpowering, and it achieves the feat of great wines where you simply know how good they are by how your palate responds to the effortless balance of tannin,  juice and brambled fruit. Long ageing potential also. 3.5pH, 70% French oak, 30% American oak. From sandy gravel soils with full sun  exposure meaning natural low yields of around 30hl/ha. Drinking Window 2022 – 2040"