Salisbury Estate Winery

Vivid, almost unreal, purple-red; the bouquet is clean with plenty of fruit in a quasi blackcurrant mode. A strange but far from unpleasant wine on the palate, with masses of ripe blackberry jam flavours, and virtually no tannin, despite all the c...

Medium yellow-green; the barrel-ferment characters drive the bouquet and the palate. The wine has some elegance, particularly on the palate, but you really do have to accept oak as the primary flavour.

When we tasted the red blends this year and then had a look at the winners one thing became blindingly obviousÑall the best wines were from 2002 and they were all sourced from the Riverina in NSW. Now for one of these wines to be chosen as a five-...