Best's Wines @ Corkscore

2011 Best's Great Western Bin No 1 Shiraz

2025-04-26T11:44:18Z

97 points - Dark red, some medium shades showing. Wine needs about an hour in the decanter to open up. Nose of tar, graphite edging into fernet herbs. Reminds me of an aged Barolo at first, dried blood and all. The palate medium bodied and fully swung in. A wine at its peak. Dark tar and pepper aromas intermingle with secondary herbs. Outstanding and complex. Will have another decade or so ahead of it. Day 2: all tar, dried fernet herbs and pepper.

Tasted on Fri, Apr 25, 2025.

2011 Best's Great Western Bin No 1 Shiraz

2025-04-27T09:27:45Z

96 points - Deep purple red. Complex barnyard, rusty iron bucket aromas, beef extract. Fully integrated tannins, softened and interwoven with black olive, savoury leather and char characters. Tannins are fine and vanishing, acidity poised and ballerina like. A very fine wine.

Tasted on Fri, Apr 25, 2025.

2020 Best's Thomson Family Shiraz

2025-04-11T07:35:21Z

96 points - Medium dark red. Aromas of coffee, dried spices. Savoury, delicate aromatics. Outstanding mouthfeel: voluptuous, without being overly weighty. Medium bodied. Wow, stunning wine.

Tasted on Fri, Apr 11, 2025.

2020 Best's Thomson Family Shiraz

2025-04-11T07:54:55Z

93 points - Milk chocolate aromas, spicy and savoury, intense, concentrated, plums. Walnutty, juicy and lush, the fruit is concentrated. Milk chocolate powder tannins. Touches of cassis and red currant.

Tasted on Fri, Apr 11, 2025.

2014 Best's Great Western Sparkling Shiraz

2024-12-31T13:30:17Z

95 points - Ribena flavours. Very well balanced. Fine bubbles, superb with scallops and raspberries. Outstanding wine, utterly drinkable.

Tasted on Wed, Jan 1, 2025.

2014 Best's Great Western Sparkling Shiraz

2025-01-01T13:08:17Z

96 points - Medium dark red, still showing flashes of purple. Aromas are spice and blue berry fruit driven. Outstanding on the palate, cassis and blueberry flavoured, the fruit expressive against the well balanced structure. Tannins and phenolics are melded and harmonious, fruit sweetness well judged. Some tar like bitumen characters, so speaking of the region. Excellent.

Tasted on Tue, Dec 31, 2024.

2001 Best's Thomson Family Shiraz

2023-03-05T05:16:43Z

98 points - Deep purple red. Plummy, leather, graphite and tar aromas, spicy and complex with tinges of age. Plush, full and fleshy on the palate with good fruit expression, succulence balanced very well with aged characters. The palate is really beautiful. Tight, complete. Gorgeous. Just astounding the youth and power, for a wine this old.

Tasted on Thu, Mar 2, 2023.

2001 Best's Thomson Family Shiraz

2023-03-02T10:41:21Z

97 points - Medium dark red purple. Spicy nose, tar, dried herbs. Tar. Now medium bodied. Light notes on the way out.

Tasted on Thu, Mar 2, 2023.

2011 Best's Great Western Bin No 1 Shiraz

2023-02-03T02:23:01Z

96 points - Dark red. Beguiling nose of tar and dried thyme, coal dust. There is a spiciness about this wine. Savoury, with a bit of mint at the back palate. Fine acidity. Well knit and integrated palate. There is a lightness about it. Drinking perfectly now.

Tasted on Thu, Feb 2, 2023.

2011 Best's Great Western Bin No 1 Shiraz

2023-02-02T11:34:45Z

96 points - Deep purple red. Intense and fragrant, tar and ironstone, rusty bucket and coal dust. Beautiful, intense, rich and savoury. Beautifully aged, soft, concentrated. Touches of plum lingering, succulent and fruit sweet. Tea leaf.

Tasted on Thu, Feb 2, 2023.