2016 Mitolo Savitar Shiraz, McLaren Vale

This sumptuous offering exhibits fabulous dark fruit intensity together with nuances of smoked game, chocolate tart and cake spice. It is concentrated and multi-layered with awesome fruit richness backed by plush mouthfeel and lavish texture, leading to an extremely long, gratifying finish. At its best: now to 2028. AU $85.00.

97 points 5 Stars Feb 2019. Sam Kim Wine Orbit

2016 has produced some impressive wines that are characterised by their bold and concentrated fruit and in this case the Savitar has benefited from time in quality French oak that provides both decadence and class. An Inky dark red in the glass with plum and blackberry that shows a savoury edge that is lacquered with milk chocolate richness and oak derived spice. Full bodied, but balanced with fruit and oak melding together beautifully, there is a suppleness of fruit but underlying drive of blackberry fruits. Impressive length of dark plum that’s intertwined with milk chocolate and a wine that will live for decades.

95 points Patrick Eckel, Wine Reviewer May 2019 

More balanced Mitolo with dried-berry and tea-leaf character. Wet-earth undertone. Still a big wine, but shows tension and energy at the end. Complex aftertaste. Drink now.

92 points James Suckling jamessuckling.com