Thorn Clarke William Randell Shiraz is made from 100 percent Shiraz

Deep red / purple color, the nose displays lifted spice with layers of dark chocolate, mocha and Christmas cake. The palate is rich and full bodied with blackberries, cassis and mocha oak notes which characterize this intensely flavored Barossa Shiraz. The wine is mouth filling and satisfying with its creamy texture and fine silky tannins. The wine has great length with lingering flavors of blackberry fruit and well integrated oak.

Review:

'A rich, textural wine with dense plum, dark berry, blackcurrant and chocolate/mocha flavours. Impressive concentration with obvious cellaring potential.' - 95 Points / Gold Ribbon - Bob Campbell 2016, NZ

This isn't a wallflower when it comes to potency of fruit and mesh of oak, but it sure does give the drinker a good slug of Barossa Valley Shiraz at its most powerful. Thick, syrupy textured with licks of mocha mint among plummy fruit and creamy texture. Big done very well. 94 Points - Wine Business Monthly, August 2016

Barossa Valley Shiraz, done up to the nines. The oak is fairly obvious here but then, so too is the depth of fruit. We're talking bold, deep blackberry and saturated plum here, with tips of mint and then sweeps of coffee-cream, chocolatey oak. It struts through the palate, all cuddly and warm. - 93 Points The Wine Front  

Deep Red/purple hue and a chocolaty, smoky, earthy oak driven aroma. The barrels dominate, and the oak seems to be sitting apart from the wine. It's a big, dense, rich wine, with dominant vanilla and cholate oak-derived flavours. The tannins are drying but smooth. - 92 Points - Huon Hooke 2016

'A very impressive Barossa shiraz offering vibrant, rich blackberry varietal character backed up by precise oak handling. The finish is long and the firm, fine tannins linger. Well worth cellaring.' -4 ½ Stars -Winewise May 2016

4 Stars - Winestate Magazine, Mainfreight World's Greatest Shiraz 2016

New Zealand Drinks Biz Magazine - June 2016

If dark chocolate, intense vanilla, black plums, dried leaves and smoky notes all sound like an interesting and complex range of flavours, then meet Thorn Clarke's William Randell Shiraz. What a wine; it's bone dry with high but balanced acidity, big tannins (which need a little time to soften) and a full body. Its long finish adds to its very good quality. It drinks well now but has potential to age for up to 10 years and beyond.

Winestate Magazine, Mainfreight World's Greatest Shiraz 2016

4 Stars

Raymond Chan, NZ, April 2016

19.0-/20 - Very deep, dark, near impenetrable, purple-hued black-red colour, youthful in appearance. This has a softly concentrated, deep and densely packed nose of ripe black plums, blackberries, liquorice, earth and chocolate aromas, along with gentle waves of cedar and bacon-like oak elements. Full-bodied, the fruit flavours of ripe black plums, blackberries and liquorice are melded with chocolate and cedar, and fill the palate with richness and sweetness. The mouthfeel is seamless as it opens, unfolding waves of spices and oak. The fruit richness is balanced by considerable structure from fine-grained, flowery tannin extraction. Soft acidity contributes to the mouthfilling flavours and the wine carries to a very long, lingering finish of plums, liquorice, spices and cedar. This is a very rich and layered Shiraz with mases of black plum, liquorice and cedar flavour and a seamless, fine-grained, fully-structured palate. Match with game meat, casseroles and slow-cooked meats over the next 7-9+ years. Fruit from 'St Kitts' and 'Milton Park', fermented to 14.5% alc., the wine aged 14 months in 40% new American oak.