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2004 SHIRAZ GOOSE-YARD BLOCK - VARIOUS REVIEWS

2004 SHIRAZ GOOSE-YARD BLOCK Miniature-producer Schubert normally sells their grapes to Torbreck, but have also this year made a wine (all of 2500 bottles) themselves. This vintage should become a break-through, as it is fantastic; it jumps from the glass with lots of fruit, sweet blackberries, black pepper, spices and a hint of mint. An intense wine which will last for many years, but there’s really no reason to save it, as it's perfectly wonderful for drinking right now. Simply a stunning Shiraz, with a considerably reasonable price tag, when taking into account the Barossa’s usual price level. Niels Lillelund Denmark August 06 Morgenavisen Jyllands Posten. (Danish text translated)

Goose-yard Block 2004 wins Silver at MUNDUSvini International Wine Award
The MUNDUSvini International Wine Award is a competition held in Germany for wines from all the wine-growing regions in the world. And record participation in 2007 shows just how important the competition has meanwhile become in Germany. 4925 wines were entered. Today MUNDUSvini is the largest officially recognised wine competition in the world.

James Halliday Wine Companion 2007 - Rated 5 Glasses: Outstanding. Wines of the highest quality, usually with a distinguished pedigree. Australia August 2006

James Halliday Wine Companion 2007
Goose Yard Block 2004 Rating 95 Saturated, dense red-purple; a rich tapestry of textures and flavours; plum, blackberry and spice, with ripe tannins. Rating 95 Drink 2019 . Australia August 2006

2004 SHIRAZ GOOSE-YARD BLOCK The wine was decanted two hours prior to assessment and consumed over the next four, so I got a good look at it. A very youthful bouquet showing excellent complexity; whilst its primarily off-sweet in nature, there is a secondary layer of sweet aromas running below with scents of blackberry, cedar liquorice, vanilla, with a hint of mint/ menthol and a reasonable amount of chocolate. The youthful acid, deeply-seated killer fruit and dusty tannins are impeccably-balanced; sheer perfection. Palate flavours are primarily off-sweet with plum type taste, abundant violets, chocolate, coffee and a touch of pepper; as the wine opened further the pepper gave way to loads of graphite, liquorice spicy oak and nutmeg; the complexity is fantastic. A full-bodied wine with excellent power and persistent but it still retains a modicum of elegance and certainly has loads of class. Rated as Excellent, the rating should improve the wine matures. An absolutely glorious wine and the worst possible case of vininfanticide, but it's already showing signs of harmony: by I don't mean that it's necessarily easy to drink, but just everything is in perfect proportion, and although approachable now, it will definitely improve with another few years in the bottle. Ric Einstein 2006 Torbwine Australia March 2006

Gourmet Traveller WINE : " SCARLET FEVER " - The latest crop of reds, especially shirazes, from some of the country's most exciting producers should raise the temperature of those with a taste for the ripe stuff." - TEXT - WINES TO WATCH Campbell Mattison . AUG/SEPT 2006 page 36-37