
- 98
- 97
- 98
- 96
- 98
2021 Mount Langi Ghiran Langi Shiraz
The Langi Shiraz is sourced from the fruit of old vines planted on Mount Langi Ghiran’s isolated vineyard in 1969. Dense midnight black heart with a deep dark red black hue. Intense blackberry, liquorice and spicy dark plum scents fill the nostrils trailed by subtle smoky vanillin cedar, earth and peppered dried meat notes. Rich and gorgeously silky across the palate yet not over weight, the medium to full bodied palate is layered with blackberry, liquorice and dark plum fruits which are complexed by smoked meats, vanillin cedar, dried clove, black olive and peppered earth characters. Providing great structure are exceptionally polished tannins. Magnificent concentration, power and depth with an astonishingly long finish that’s layered with pepper and spice.
Drink over the next 10-15 years.
Alc. 14.8%
Other Reviews…..
Grown on the estate's 'Old Block' of shiraz vines, planted in 1969. It spent 16 months in French oak barriques (50% new). It's a magnificent release. It's fluid, elegant and controlled but, just a bit, it also stamps its feet and says: the world is mine. It's awash with cherry/plum, peanut shell, black pepper and floral flavours, and it's both silken to the touch, and (super) long through the finish. This is a wine. Drink by 2044.
98 Points
Campbell Mattinson – James Halliday’s Australian Wine Companion
Ethereal, with granite and black pepper-sluiced fresh, persistent raspberry and blackberry fruit, a dancing backbone of acidity and dynamic, spiralling tannins. Awash with spices and violets – delicious detail – the long, elegant finish has a lick of milk chocolate and compelling, peppery, meaty, mineral back-palate resonance. From a long, relatively mild growing season, the harvest for this beautifully balanced vintage finished on 28 April. 100% whole-berry ferment. Drink 2024-2046.
97 Points
Decanter.com
Sourced from the sacred Old Block site and matured in French barriques for 16 months of which 50% was new. There is a potency to the black fruit. Blackberries, bilberry and black christmas cherries. So too, is rhubarb and redcurrant dispersed throughout. A medley of clove, caraway and carob spice. The fruit concentration is dense, dark and deeply detailed, backed by the artful tailoring of oak spice. A cascade of fresh acidity uplifts the palate and then floods it with cassia bark, black truffles and cocoa nibs. There is such energy and solid foundations in the framework of this wine. It’s an absolute superstar wine and this vintage is on song. A benchmark for cool climate Shiraz. Drink now and will cellar well for 10 years plus. I’d drink this with a bone-in dry aged rib eye and the most loyal best mate you’ve got. If that’s your dog even better, more wine for you. Drink 2024-2034+
98 Points
Shanteh Wale – WinePilot.com
The 2021 Langi Shiraz is blue-fruited and aromatic, with black spice and olive brine, field flowers and crushed rocks. It is kind of ethereal in its way. It has an authentic feeling, of the earth, and it's floral, fine and long, with substance and finesse. This is a superstar wine; it's really great. No whole-bunch grapes were used in this vintage. The block was largely planted in 1969. 14.8% alcohol (although if I had to guess, I would have said it was almost a whole percent less, such is its delicacy), sealed under screw cap. Drink 2024-2045.
96+ Points
Erin Larkin – Robert Parker’s the Wine Advocate