Today's grouping focuses on the blended reds/Bordeaux varieties, and a stellar group they were, showing a series of very powerfully structured wines that will be best with some age. Showing dried herbs and oak nuances on the long fruit driven close. www.babichwines.com2015 Babich Gimblett Gravels The PatriarchPrice: $80Rating: OutstandingDark fruited nose, graphite with perfumed oak. On first pour, lush, rich and open for business with its dark fruits, savoury notes and hints of dried herb on the long, intensely fruit-driven finish. Mouthfilling amalgam of fruits, pencil lead and savoury notes flows through to a long close with lots of interest.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 07, 2017 16:18 UTC