Elderton Command Single Vineyard Shiraz @ Corkscore

2003 Elderton Command Single Vineyard Shiraz

2023-09-16T10:34:33Z

95 points - Dark red. Coconut oak. Palate perfectly integrated and seamless. Coconut oak dominates. It’s a hedonistic coconut concoction with a sweet fruit core. It sits across the grilled beef we have with it, but is surprisingly enjoyable. There is a decidedly savoury overtone. Superb bottle, old school style of wine. Stands up easily to the food.

Tasted on Sat, Sep 16, 2023.

2003 Elderton Command Single Vineyard Shiraz

2023-09-16T10:39:03Z

93 points - Deep purple red. Touches of coconut oak, spices and plum fruit. Dense, rich with good intensity and flavour. Coconut touches still, tightly woven tannin. The best bottle we’ve had.

Tasted on Sat, Sep 16, 2023.

2003 Elderton Command Single Vineyard Shiraz

2020-01-05T12:52:02Z

92 points - Dark medium red. Coconut, aldehydes and red fruit nose. Thick on the palate, with coconut aromatics dominating. ‘Bounty’ in a glass: coconut and chocolate tones. The wine has a salty edge. A hedonistic, showy wine cut in the blockbuster style. Lots of people will love this. Day 5: significantly improved. Mellowed, the savoury component is better integrated. Now we get the darkest of berries with tar notes. In the direction of aged hermitage. Maybe keep it for another 10-20 years and see how it develops?

Tasted on Thu, Jan 2, 2020.

2003 Elderton Command Single Vineyard Shiraz

2020-01-05T12:52:33Z

92 points - Good deep red colour. Restrained nose, coconut aromas, berry fruit not so evident. Ballsy on the palate, it is built, dense and ageworthy. Syrupy, fruitcake style, definitely cloves and spices. Good if winemakerly. For lovers of this style. Tasted 5 days later: it has mellowed out a lot, and is still potable amazingly. Rounded and seamless, it now shows a trace of menthol, a hint of black fruit beneath all of the oak work.

Tasted on Tue, Dec 31, 2019.

2003 Elderton Command Single Vineyard Shiraz

2016-07-27T12:19:56Z

93 points - Deep red with a touch of brick. Aged development characters, restrained yet subtly powerful on the nose, hinting at richness. Some prune like notes. Very dense and syrupy palate, loads of vanilla, cinnamon oak characters, dried fruit cake. Big and essency, yet strangely enough there is some restraint. Blockbuster style, the region and variety were fairly obvious.

Tasted on Wed, Jul 27, 2016.

2003 Elderton Command Single Vineyard Shiraz

2016-07-27T10:42:49Z

93 points - Medium dark brick red, with a savoury dark roasted pan nose. Having tried this wine several times on prior occasions, the first thing that strikes me is how salty this wine is. Was it always this salty? Briars follow. Oak fully integrated. Almost syrupy texture. A truly old school Barossa wine. High octane stuff. Ready to drink, although good bottles will probably last another decade at least.

Tasted on Wed, Jul 27, 2016.

2003 Elderton Command Single Vineyard Shiraz

2015-10-16T10:37:52Z

93 points - Dark medium purple red with a tinge of brick. The nose take a while to open up. Some aged, leather and spice character, there's a richness in the bouquet evident already. Full bodied, seamless, voluptuous and syrupy on the palate, very fruit sweet with black fruit and a touch of fruit cake character, mocha. Tannins completely integrated. A very ripe, new world style of shiraz. Not bad but a little too oak driven for me.

Tasted on Fri, Oct 16, 2015.

2003 Elderton Command Single Vineyard Shiraz

2015-10-16T10:39:41Z

92 points - Full bodied, full flavoured wine. Red cherry fruits standing out underpinned by strong American oak tannins and a dungy, coffee like finish. Unashamedly fruit sweet and bold, very Barossa. After an hour in the decanter the cherry flavour lifts and is replaced by a raspberry veil, and the previously dungy elements turned into a more thyme herb direction. Chocolaty. Can age for another decade. A lot of folks will love this. But it's not elegant, it's in your face Barossa. So for those that prefer a more subtle style, go for a different wine. Here hedonism rules!

Tasted on Fri, Oct 16, 2015.

2007 Elderton Command Single Vineyard Shiraz

2015-10-12T19:02:18Z

97 points - Deep and dark, dense and thick. Heavenly aromas of dark chocolate, black fruit, Christmas cake, cigar box and even liquorice. Big, dense and smooth. Medium to full body and a finish that will stay with you a long time. Sweet fruit, dark chocolate and everything else with fine tannins too. This is the real deal. A Shiraz masterpiece.

Tasted on Wed, Oct 7, 2015.

2010 Elderton Command Single Vineyard Shiraz

2014-07-30T09:56:15Z

90 points - Slight phenolics. Coconutty. Concentrated. Sweet. Tastes like Bounty. A lot of people will like this. Not me.

Tasted on Wed, Jul 30, 2014.