Lifted black plum, blackberry and blueberry with hints of earth, anise and spicy, savory oak. The palate is an elegant expression of rich dark fruits with some earthy savoriness and smoked meat flavors. It is long and intense with excellent fruit purity and freshness, finishing with a taut backbone and persistent fine tannin structure.
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97 pts - Australian Wine Companion: “The massive difference in most of the best Barossa Valley shirazes of today compared to the wines of 20 years ago has been the adoption of French oak (not even a mix of French and American). It freshens the flavor profile, allowing the varietal fruit expression freedom to communicate its message.”
94+ pts - The Wine Front: “From best of best shiraz from best of best sources in best of best Barossa and Eden Valleys. It sees around two thirds of the oak barrels used as new. Indeed, if you take the exceptional Annexus grenache model, it is the opposite, in some respects. It says loudly that John Duval’s experience has led him to the conclusion that to make upper tier wine from shiraz from the Barossa you need new oak. New oak elevates the wine. It’s firm and sinewy in tannin and oak, but there’s great inward concentration and the feel of a wine pent up, powerful, slumbering… Dark berry fruit scents, sweet earth, old spice cupboard, cedar, new leather and mushroomy in perfume. The wine drills through the palate with its deep, powerful fruit and armor of oak, finding supreme length and a smearing stain of oaky-rich fruit flavor lingering. Powerhouse stuff, all up, done evenly and well. Very well. I hope to meet this wine again.”
93+ pts - Wine Advocate: “Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2014 Eligo has pronounced black plum and blackberry preserves aromas over nuances of charcoal, grilled meat, earth, peppercorns and aniseed. Rich, ripe, concentrated and with firm, finely grained tannins on the palate, it has a taut backbone and great length.”
93 pts/TOP 100 CELLAR SELECTIONS OF 2018 - Wine Enthusiast: “John Duval’s wines are rarely timid and rarely simple, although they do require some time for brooding. The 2014 Eligo offers plenty of attractive blue fruit, dark cherry, florals and cedar to ponder over. The palate is full bodied but elegant, with savory, tight-grained tannins. This should cellar beautifully.”
93 pts - JamesSuckling.com: “A very intense ripe blackberry core of fruit and a big, ripe tannin frame. Heads into tarry territory on the palate, holds long with thicker weight tannins. Plum essence to close.”
91 pts - Wine Spectator: “Blueberry, plum and kirsch flavors are equally juicy and firm, with muscular, tight tannins clamping down on the finish. Earl Grey tea, dark chocolate and gingerbread notes linger.”
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