Coming Soon - 2024 MMAD Vineyard Shiraz

MMAD unites the experienced team behind Shaw + Smith and Tolpuddle around a historic single vineyard in McLaren Vale's Blewitt Springs. Working with rare vines dating as far back as 1939 set in sand over ironstone soils, they craft nuanced Grenache, Shiraz, and Chenin Blanc deeply rooted in provenance. It is a focused, site-driven project dedicated to letting these ancient vines express their true sense of place.

Other Reviews...
A briar of black fruit and savoury, creeping herbs—bilberry, dark cherry and pepperberry layered with notes of kombu, coastal rosemary and wild, untamed greens. There’s an earthiness here too: turned soil and dark, stony sand grounding the aromatic lift. It feels like an afternoon bush walk—banksia brushing past, scrub at your ankles—so vivid is its sense of place and transportive quality. Powder-fine tannins settle gently through the mid-palate, while olive tapenade, nigella seed and a touch of twiggy oak lend structure and savoury detail, supporting the core of blackberry fruit. This is full flavoured, detailed with its own distinctive character but sits in a medium to full body for its freshness and brightness. You won’t forget this experience any time soon. Try this with Lamb chops and old school mint sauce and reinvent the marriage of the two. Old school dish and very new school modern wine.
97 points
Shanteh Wale - Wine Pilot

This has been the surprise packet of the MMAD wines, with it duelling for position with the grenache and chenin blanc. Some whole bunch, concrete and oak vat for ferment, then raised in older, larger oak, as usual. Saint-Joseph resonances. Evocatively aromatic and spicily so. Smoky, darkly mineral. Blackberry pastille, tapenade, lavender, grilled game meat, crème de violette, iodine and nori, star anise, ground clove, allspice, green and black peppercorns, malted barley, freshly ground coffee, powdery rust. Like the grenache, the nose holds such intrigue, demands attention. That’s matched by the silky flow of the old-vine fruit on the palate and the superfine natural tannin. This is blisteringly good, again. Drink 2026-2036.
97+ points
Marcus Ellis- James Halliday's Wine Companion