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I am a fan of Juniper Estate wines. They are well made, retain their varietal and regional roots and exhibit fresh, pure and drinkable characters pretty much across the range that I have tasted over the past few years. Mark Messenger is its winemaker. On top of all that the “Juniper Crossing” range is very good value. This Shiraz ticks all the above boxes as you breathe in those lovely fresh berry filled aromas – blackberry and ripe plums, with a good hint of fruit spice and glorious black liquorice and ever so light aniseed at the end. Very good seamless oak integration occurs with the fruit and the freshness through the acidity really lifts it all, in spite of the fact the wine is now heading towards its fifth year. Balanced, delicious and highly drinkable, this is a food friendly red that retails for under $20.
Drink to 2011. About $19. 91/100 – Excellent.
Paul Ippolito, Value Buying, www.paulippolito.com.au April 2009
Peppery again - spicy - almost nutmeg-like. It's a bit pongy to begin but this blows off to reveal lovely dark cherry fruit. Attacks tart juicy and then gets sweet creamy, with a burstof pepper along the way. Fine tannins and a vanilla raspberry ginish. Loads of flavour. 93/100, $18-20.
The Financial Review, Tim White 25th July 2008
A good value in a more savory Shiraz, Juniper Crossing’s 2005 features meaty, peppery – even mushroomy – aromas, while flavors of blackberry and black olive build to a spicy crescendo on the finish. 90 Points
Wine Enthusiast, August 2008
A great alternative to robust Barossa and McLaren Vale shirazes, this medium-bodied red has a soft, elegant style yet at the same time is full flavoured. The peppery bouquet has a hint of coffee bean with appealing acid balancing a combination of fruit and subdued oak.
Jeff Collerson, The Daily Telegraph, Style, 17th May 2008
A spicy medium weighted wine, quite typical of Margaret River Shiraz. The nose has plenty of toasty meaty barrel-ferment characters, clever winemaking with bright light berry fruits and spice. Rules a fine line across the palate with bright fruit flavours, punchy oak has the fruit wrestled into submission. Should settle in a year or two. 90 Points
WBM100, Shiraz & Blends, April 2008
‘Thereis nothing remotely reticent about this juicy, fruit-filled wine, but at the same time there is nothing at all excessive or extroverted about it either. It’s instead intensely harmonious. All the elements – the primary plum and cherry flavours, the secondary pepper and spice, the well-defined but pliant tannins, and the tangy backdrop of acidity – are in delectable balance. It’s simply a delight to sip. 90 Points.’
Paul Lukas,http://www.winereviewonline.com1 April 2008
‘Beautiful savoury plumy fruit smells with some persuasive oak infusion. The palate is full-bodied with stacks of powerful fleshy shiraz. A punchy wine of depth and concentration delivered with some style. Slightly grippy tannins but plenty of fruit weight. 89/100’
Ray Jordan, Ray Jordan’s Guide to WA Wine 2007/8
This is lovely, broad and deep and generous, very smoky, very minerally, bursting with spiced and macerated black currant and blackberry with a touch of blueberry and mulberry and wet dog. The wine is dense and chewy in the mouth, notably tannic, though soft and velvety; it’s amazingly vibrant and resonant, and however jammy it gets – and it does – it keeps feet firmly planted in a serious structure. Now through 2010 or ‘12. Excellent.
Koeppel on Wine, www.koeppelonwine.com 10 December 2007
The black fruits really dominate the senses here along with the oak – cedary and quite young and firm. This wine has restrained power and I would like to see and drink it again in a few years time as its aromatics, structure and length of finish with its ripe yet fine tannins augur for a good drinking future. No don’t cellar it for twenty years but do put a few bottles under the bed, to try again in a year or so. Try this with lasagna.
Drink to 2012. 89/100 – Very Good.
Paul Ipolitto, www.paulippolito.com.au 2 September 2008
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