Straightforward, this offers thin, tart fruit with excessive vanilla and tobacco flavors. There’s no residual sugar, but otherwise it’s right out of the Australian playbook.——P.G.(5/1/2009)—— 84

A good effort, with plenty of snap and sizzle for an eight dollar wine. You get juicy berry fruit, some clean spice and suggestions of white pepper, fine acids and decent length. It says Shiraz but it’s less of an Aussie style and more of a snappy, acid-driven Washington take.——P.G.(5/1/2007)—— 87