Tyrrell's Vat 9 Shiraz 2019

Fantastic nose of brown, worn leather, crumbly brown earth and gentle red fruits. The palate is calm and gentle, yet at the same time very nicely detailed. Tyrrell's and Vat 9 are certainly in a bit of a purple patch here. It's effortless rather than showy and a great flag-bearer for Hunter Shiraz, both in style and in quality. - Ches Cook, FWC. 

Tasted in the Hunter Valley, blind, in a bracket of 94 2019 vintage wines. No drinking windows entered. That seductive purple Hunter shiraz colour right here. Fine web of tannin the main feature, so gossamer and strict but allows dark berry fruitiness, earthy characters, new leather and dried herb to roll around the palate deliciously. Shy perfume but what’s there is beautiful. This is a fantastic, tense, seductive red. 95 points. - Mike Bennie, Wine Front.