Mount Mary Quintet 2014

Mount Mary Quintet 2014

Perfumed and pretty with almost succulent small black and red berries, a little vanilla and violet, cedar, tobacco and pencil cases. Medium bodied, delicious boysenberry/blackcurrant flavour, cool minerally acidity, mouth-filling but ultra fine gravelly tannin, that superb Cabernet perfume again, and extreme length closing with an array of red and black berries and refreshingly pure rain-washed acidity. What a wine. As a frame of reference, perhaps Ginger Rogers – can do anything Fred can do, but backwards while wearing heels – and a fraction better it is than either 2012 or 2013, I’d suggest. 96+ Points - Gary Walsh, The Wine Front.

The 2014 season was low cropping, warm and dry. The 2014 Quintet moves into hitherto unchartered territory, with notes of bone broth, enoki and raspberry compote—there's a real blood and bone, gristle inflation on the nose of this 2014. In the mouth, the wine is, as usual, supple, red-fruited and elegant, with a score of harmonious tannin that plays into the hands of the fruit. I like the juxtaposition here—it matches, but there is diversity between the nose and palate. That is not always a good thing, but in this instance, the nose highlights aspects of the palate that I may have missed without it. It's a bit of an outlier, and I like it nonetheless. 13% alcohol, sealed under natural cork. 95+ Points - Erin Larkin, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate