Lost Block Rose
by Kerry Skinner - Illawarra Mercury on Wed, August 8th 2012
Multi-regional range that has grown to six wines with this greanche-based rose from McLaren Vale. Vibrant pink with sweetish red berry fruit flavours, a touch of spice and lively acidity.
by Nick Stock - Good Wine Guide 2013 on
88 Points - A bright-pink wine in the glass, this grenache rose offers up ripe raspberry and cherry fruit aromas, nice and fresh. The palate’s lightly sweet and delivers musky rose flavour, red berries and decent length.
Vat 9 Hunter Shiraz
by Gary Walsh - www.winefront.com.au on
94 Points - Chocolate box, mixed berries, touch of spicy oak richness and subtle menthol and pepper top notes. It’s gentle and composed with a lovely creamy mouth-feel, balanced acidity and a little chop of tannin pulling through on the finish. A very good Vat 9 – plump and delicious. Age-worthy of course.
Vat 8 Hunter Shiraz Cabernet
by Gary Walsh - www.winefront.com.au on
93+ Points - This vintage is All Hunter, All Class. The small Cabernet component is the first crop from Robin Drayton’s vineyard – planted with cuttings sourced from Lake’s Folly. For a Tyrrell’s Hunter wine it’s a buxom and comely style – and I like it a lot. Choc-licorice and Montelimar, violet, a seasoning of pepper, blue and black fruit and suggestion of mint. It’s round and plump with plenty of fruit weight, but only really medium bodied. Ripe sweet tannin and plenty of length. Really like this. It’s the most approachable of the current releases, though I’d wait a couple of years before tucking in. The best Vat 8 in a fair while.
by John Lewis - Newcastle Herald on
Here’s a happy marriage of shiraz and cabernet sauvignon that drinks well now and will pay dividends for long-term cellaring. It is bright magenta and has scents of ripe black cherries and caramel. Profound Satsuma plum flavour dominates the front of the palate and fruit elements of blackberry, mint and dark chocolate meld with restrained cedary oak on the middle palate.
Vat 47 Hunter Chardonnay
by Gary Walsh - www.winefront.com.au on
93+Points - It was bottled a day before I tasted it, so I had a quick crack, and came back to it a couple of days later. Hard to call so early, these baby wines, though that’s my job I guess. Gentle sulphide and vanilla oak, peach and lime, floral notes. It’s fine boned, fresh and subtly flinty with cool flavours of green olive adding interest. You might call it slightly dilute, though I’m calling it subtle and delicate. I’m also calling it early; this is an excellent long term Vat 47 that puts me in mind, perhaps, of the 2002 on release. Line and length is terrific. Even as a young wine it’s still good to drink, in a sort of academic and/or prophetic way.
Vat 1 Hunter Semillon
by Nick Stock - Good Wine Guide 2013 on
95 Points - A great result in the 2012 vintage, this has the trademark Tyrrell’s class and concentration, mixing power with restraint. There’s plenty of lime and white nectarine fruit on offer here, with a really lovely lean yet juicy palate, great acidity and drive. Terrific.
Stevens Single Vineyard Semillon
by Gary Walsh - www.winefront.com.au on
93+Points - Lime, light spice, subtle lettuce notes in the background, but love the crisp and fluid feel this wine has. Nice lines. Zesty finish and clarity of fruit. Needs a fair amount of cellar time of course. There’s subdued power and understatement here. It’s a good release.
Lost Block Sauvignon Blanc
by Chris Shanahan - Sunday Canberra Times on Thu, July 5th 2012
Tyrrell’s Lost Block range presents high quality regional-varietal combinations at fair prices, trimmed dramatically on occasion by retail discounting. The sauvignon blanc comes from the Adelaide Hills and the particularly cool 2012 vintage produced fresh, herbal and tropical-fruit varietal flavours. It provides a subtler, less in-your-face drinking experience than the Marlborough versions.
by Nick Stock - Good Wine Guide 2013 on
89 Points - Sourced from the Adelaide Hills, this has a bright array of tropical and floral fruit aromas, some hints of grassy citrus too, really fresh. The palate’s crisp and juicy: decent depth here, tropical fruits and crunchy resolve.
by James Halliday on Wed, December 19th 2012
88 Points - Everyone is taking to the Hills in ‘12, the Adelaide Hills that is; the wine has plenty of varietal expression in an easy-going tropical spectrum that will have broad appeal.
Lost Block Cabernet Sauvignon
by Chris Shanahan - Sunday Canberra Times on Tue, July 10th 2012
Back in the 90s, the Tyrrell family expanded beyond their Hunter base, establishing a vineyard at Heathcote, Victoria, and acquiring the St Mary’s Vineyard on the Cave Range, 15 kilometers west of Coonawarra. Though excluded from that illustrious appellation, the wines from St Mary’s including Lost Block Cabernet Sauvignon, bear a striking resemblance to Coonawarra’s, with ripe-berry varietal character and elegant structure – in this instance, approachable and ready to drink now.
by Nick Stock - Good Wine Guide 2013 on
85 Points - There’s a wealth of recognisable cabernet character here: cassis, leafy notes, some roasting herbs and hints of mint. The palate’s tart and tangy, sits up front and delivers simple light flavour, snaps shut.
Lost Block Merlot
by Nick Stock - Good Wine Guide 2013 on
89 Points - A mellow, rich and smooth wine from McLaren Vale that shows earthy plum and dark berry fruits, some leafy notes and gentle roasting herbs here. The palate’s tangy, with fine tannins holding cassis and plum flavours, herbs scattered throughout here too.
Lost Block Semillon
by Tony Love - Daily Telegraph on Thu, August 2nd 2012
Glossy and beautifully floral, a dash of natural fruit sweetness and lemon curd creaminess in the mouth
by Jeff Collerson - Daily Telegraph on Wed, October 3rd 2012
If you are among the thousands of sauvignon blanc devotees you will enjoy this racy Hunter semillon. Unoaked, medium-bodied and with a modest 11.5 per cent alcohol, this wine’s bracing acidity makes it the perfect appetiser or alfresco lunch partner on a spring day.
by Mike Bennie - WBM on Thu, November 1st 2012
90 Points - Value for money from Tyrrell’s, this wine shows consumer friendly tropical fruits, tinned pineapple and floral notes while delivering a fruit forward, juicy mouthful kissed with tangy citrus acidity.
by Drinks Trade Magazine on Thu, December 1st 2011
Very good bright green colour, the nose represents the Hunter conundrum; delicate aromas but intense palate. Palate is slightly spicy with preserved lemon notes. Good palate weight and length, intensity, less aggressive acid and five years to go bonus.
by Winewise on Thu, December 1st 2011
Recommended - Forward, but still fresh, showing citrus/peach characteristics. Satisfying and ready
by Winestate on Thu, December 1st 2011
3 Stars - Intense, sweet style with fruit salad nose and bright, spicy green palate and balancing acidity.
by James Halliday - James Halliday Australian Wine Companion 2013 on
88 Points & Recommended - It has plenty of body, possibly amplified by the skilled use of pressings from some of the top-end vats. It’s ready now but will be good for another few years.
by Tony Love - Daily Telegraph on Wed, August 1st 2012
3.5 Glasses - The hunter has built an international reputation for big gun, age-worthy Semillons. Tyrrell’s Vat 1 is a museum release benchmark at $69, and a superb experience for the initiated with its current 2011 vintage tagged at $34. But you also can check into a whole other kind of semillon – this unwooded, fresh and citrusy with a cute floral lift and even a decent mouthfeel. And it’s also very affordable.
by Tony Love - Taste.com.au on Thu, July 28th 2011
The new vintage whites are upon us. This is an enticingly glossy and floral wine sourced from Tyrrell’s Scone vineyard. Toned to be an early drinking style with a dash of fruit sweetness and a cute turn of lemon-curd flavour. It’s soft rather than piercing and a wonderful way to fall in love with the Hunter Valley’s semillon reputation.