If I learned anything during my trips to the Southern Hemisphere it’s this: if you buy yourself a winery name a wine after your wife, because she put up with your folly of starting a winery. And by the way, better make it good. Peter Mortimer did just that. A blend of 66% Shiraz and 34% Cabernet Sauvignon made in very limited quantity: silky and spicy with a generosity of dark fruit, mocha, black cherry, coffee, and smoked-meat along with well-integrated oak so that everything is balanced. It’s a best year wine that has been made only four times in 23 years: 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2016. And because it’s named after his wife Peter warned me against calling it “full-bodied” – advice taken.
Rating: **** ½