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Paul Osicka Shiraz 2023
DOZEN: $453.60 or $37.80 each
SPECIAL VALUE - A number of different soil types employed here, each batch fermented and matured separately in French oak. A wine with a long-standing history with plantings dating back almost 70 years. It's a slightly finer rendition this vintage but the generosity is there, the Heathcote stamp apparent in sweet, ripe black and blue fruits, wild herbs, baked earth, anise and, yes, spice. Boasts a fine-grained texture and freshness through to the finish. Open and generous but with a nice degree of elegance. Old vines at their best. (95) JENI PORT, Halliday Wine Companion
I think we’ve been here before, but the ‘3’ of the house font for Osicka can look curiously like a ‘5’ and perhaps vice versa – 2023 and a double take for 2025 when looking at the label. Cabernet does good at this site.
Superb wine. Deeply flavoured, intense in concentration, blueberry, mulberry, black olive, fennel and sage leaf, dashes of sandalwood, cardamom and clove. The palate is medium weight or just over though the silky yet firming, freshening tannins are excellent here, lending shape and length to the wine, and then some. The wine speaks of an elegance usually unsaid for the region. Awesome drinking. (93) MIKE BENNIE, The Wine Front