2012 d'Arenberg Museum Release The Ironstone Pressings GSM, McLaren Vale

Not your average GSM blend. This release raises the stakes on the style. It's raked with tannin, shot with herbs, full of dust and dry spice notes, and also flush with succulent, fresh, blue- and black-berried fruit. Tannin is scintillatingly fine; length is a long-held note. One can only marvel.

97 points Campbell Mattinson winecompanion.com.au 6 October 2016

McLaren Vale, Grenache (70%) Shiraz (25%%) Mourvèdre (5%)

This is a wine of great generosity and depth. The nose exhibits an abundance of purple fruits…. mulberries and plums. We can also make out a mix of baking spices including nutmeg, cinnamon and star anise. The palate is fleshy and juicy with an almost velvet like texture. The Grenache adds fruit character and balanced acidity, the Shiraz fills out the wine and delivers early structure whilst the Mourvèdre provides red fruits and dried herb notes but importantly also provides a core of fine tannins that reveal themselves vividly as the fruitiness of the wine starts to recede. Abundantly warm and generous but sufficiently structured to suggest this wine can go the long haal.