Thistledown “Cunning Plan” Shiraz 2021

92 points Robert Parker
After tasting fifty or so big, extracted, heavily oaked Shiraz, this 2021 Cunning Plan Shiraz is like a breath of fresh air. It's mineral, bloody, midweight and spicy, with a skein of fine saline acid that curls through the palate. The red fruit is the very definition of buoyant, and it brings a plume of brine, iodine and ferrous to the fore. It's very good and gets an "A" for style. And it's classily handled.

92 points The Wine Front
Plum, raspberry, mint, and brown spices. It’s just over medium-bodied, a little saline and minty, but juicy too, with supple tannin, sage and woody spice, finishes quite salty and spicy, with good length. Kind of wheaty too, and slightly warm. Good though. Very sub-regional, as it were.

93 points James Halliday

★★★★★ Ekstra Bladet
Ung og frisk shiraz fra McLaren Vale som er nær kysten og gør vinene mindre tunge. Masser af sorte bærnoter, peber og varme krydderier. Meget saftig, blød og imødekommende med en fin krydret afslutning.