Two Hands 2016 Shiraz Bella's Garden 750ml
2015: Destemmed, crushed, open-fermented with regular pumpovers, some parcels including 20% whole bunches, 14 days on skins, matured in French hogsheads and puncheons (17% new) for 18 months. Full crimson-purple hue; the quality of the fruit is obvious from the first whiff. Warm spices open proceedings, building with a touch of licorice before expansive black fruits fill every corner of the mouth, aided and abetted by graphite tannins on the long finish and aftertaste.
Score: 95 points -- James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion, 2018
2016: Dark inky red and oozes the same coloured fruit into a matrix of spice with blackstrap licorice and curranty essence leading onto a full-bodied, decisive palate. Tannins - an abundance of them, flavour through and through and yet this is contained, never straying into the too big territory.
Score: 95 points -- James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion, 2018