Winery - Warrabilla
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A focused wine, with smooth tannins and ripe apricot, violet and cassis flavors. There’s a fair amount of spice, toast and nut on the nose. Clocks in at a massive 17.5% alcohol, but it’s balanced.
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Warrabilla Durif - 2004
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A tart, chalky finish suggests a couple years of cellaring would help this flavorful wine blossom because the other ingredients are already in place: Black pepper and eucalyptus add complexity to the blackberry aromas and flavors. —J.C.
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Warrabilla Shiraz - 2000
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This big and broodingly dark wine is packed with grapey fruit and vanilla. The tannins on the finish are dusty but ripe and should preserve the wine for up to 10 years in the cellar. Still, why not drink it now with barbecue and savor the youthfully lusty fruit? —J.C.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Like the reserve Cab but from the Paola’s block, this Cab is vibrant purple in color and positively sticks to the glass—its 16.1% alcohol is surprising, given the wine’s overall balance. It has light chocolaty aromas on the nose (like pudding), with bouncy berry fruit and some vanilla on the palate. A nice wooly texture completes the picture.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This wine’s back label talks a big game: “If you can find a bigger wine, buy it!” At 16.5% alcohol, it’s a big wine that wears its size well (but you don’t have to go far to find a bigger wine—Warrabilla’s Paola’s bottling is a percent higher in alcohol). Medium-sized and flavorful, with dense purple fruit and soft tannins, this wine is moderate, not superrich, and best that way.
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Warrabilla Durif - 2004
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
If you’ve been inside a natural food store, you’ve already experienced this Petite Sirah. The nose has olive-y, earthy, green-produce notes; the palate shows similarly organic-tasting, fresh earthy elements. Finishes short, with a slight tang. Its uniqueness will either mesmerize you or puzzle you to no end.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Just a really enjoyable mouthful of wine: Dark earth, blackberry, piercing fruitiness and some oak and char shadings. Finish is thick and claylike. It’s15.5% alcohol, but wears its size quite well.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This is a pretty good wine; fruity, spicy, ripe, round and supple, with classic green-apple and peach notes mingling with spicy, creamy, vanilla complexities. Interesting in that it uses Russian oak, with good results. Seems to have a little residual sugar, but high acidity balances things out.
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