Critic Scores:

• 95 – Erin Larkin, Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate
• 94 – James Suckling
• 94 – Campbell Mattinson, Halliday Wine Companion
• 91 – Huon Hooke, The Real Review

This legendary, Langton’s-classified icon represents the pinnacle of historic Great Western viticulture, meticulously crafted from low-yielding ancient blocks surrounding the Concongella winery, including parcels dating back to 1966 and 1970.

The excellent 2021 growing season yielded an incredibly pure crop, allowing this old-vine fruit to balance pristine fruit clarity with vibrant structural longevity.

In the glass, it presents an elegant, deep ink-red complexion that unfurls with a wonderfully expressive aromatic profile of blackberries, dark cherries, and dried herbs, overlaid by an exotic, complex layer of star anise, shaved fennel, and black olives.

On the palate, the wine effortlessly handles its 13.5% alcohol, delivering a medium-to-full-bodied weight that balances rich, dark primary fruits with a seamlessly creamy, satiny mouthfeel and fine, integrated tannins.

Leading the verified critical praise for this vintage, Erin Larkin of Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate awarded it 95 points, extolling its class and cellaring potential by celebrating it as a "vibrant, pure, silky wine with lashings of red fruits and exotic spices"