2009

2009 Synthesis 90pts

 

The wine is a 60%/35%/5% blend, the colour good, the bouquet aromatic and fragrant, with spice, small red fruits and a touch of Turkish delight, the light- to medium-bodied palate long and balanced. It will sail through the next 5 years.

[James Halliday - 2012 Australian Wine Companion]

2009

Eperosa LRC 2009 $35 Light Regional Council Greenock Vineyard, Barossa Valley, South Australia Some time back Barossa viticulturist Brett Grocke turned to winemaking, determined to capture distinctive characters from “favourite sites throughout the Barossa and Eden Valleys”, he writes. In LRC we taste a unique, generous, elegant, spicy and savoury shiraz that could, at first sip, pass as a Canberra wine. Indeed, one of our blind tasters placed it there. The production of 400 bottles comes from a single row of vines (“144 shiraz, a few riesling, one mataro and a lone unidentified stranger”), a remnant of a larger vineyard, saved from a housing sub-division only by being on land owned by the Light Regional Council.

[Chris Shanahan - Thoughts on Wine]

2009

Eperosa Elevation Shiraz 2009 $30 Bruce and Ros Mibus “Stonehut” vineyard, Eden Valley, South Australia Brett Grocke sources “Elevation” from just eight rows of the Stonehut vineyard, “on the hillside which contained the most balanced vines”, he writes. Like LRC reviewed alongside, he matures it in aged French oak casks, giving the wine the mellowing micro-oxidative effects of oak without inserting strong woody flavours. Presumably the elevated site’s cooler than the LRC site. But the wine appears riper and fuller, driven by delicious ripe-berry varietal characters, supported by soft, fine persistent tannins. Only 1,600 bottles produced.
[Chris Shanahan - Thoughts on Wine]

2009

[James Halliday - 2012 Australian Wine Companion]

2009

[James Halliday - 2012 Australian Wine Companion]

2009

[James Halliday - 2012 Australian Wine Companion]

2007

2007 Totality (Mataro 95%/Shiraz 5%)

Mainly Barossa Mataro with plum pud,spice and floral notes.  Plush yet savoury.  92/100

May 29, 2010

[Ken Gargett]

2007

2007 Eperosa Totality, Mataro/Shiraz.  Barossa Valley 14.5% Alc, $35

A wine of character and depth, not perfectly pristine but full of interest.  Dried herbs, spices, plus jam and fruitcake accents, dried fruits, raisin toast.  It's all good.  Excellent layered depths on palate with some mystery and extra persistence.  (25th May 2010)  92/100

[Huon Hooke - Sydney Morning Herald - Good Living -]

2007

Elevation 2007  Dense purple-red; an exceptionally rich and generous Shiraz for '07, with layers of black fruits of all kinds; the tannin structure is exemplary, oak handling likewise.  The name comes from the vineyard situated 300m above sea level.  High quality cork.  14.5% alc.  Rating 94 To 2022 $38
[James Halliday - 2011 Australian Wine Companion]

2007

Totality 2007  An interesting wine that certainly reflects its Mataro (Mourvedre) component, 95% of the total....The tannins, which can be the Achilles heel of Mourvedre, are good.  Cork.  14.5% alc Rating 90 points 2017 $35 Tasted Feb 10
[James Halliday - 2011 Australian Wine Companion]

2006

Eperosa's 2006 Elevation is a blend of Shiraz (60%) and Cabernet Sauvignon.  There's a finesse to this wine that is most attractive - and surprising given its high alcohol.  Never judge a book by its cover I guess.  It tastes of tar, malt, spice, blackberry and musk, and while there's some creamy oak here it;s so light that it's easy to miss it.  A very well put together wine.  Fine tanni.  Appropriate level of flavour.  Some heat through the finish, but not to any worrying degree.  (Nov 11, 2009)  Rated 91+ Points

[Campbell Mattinson - Winefront]

2006

2006 Eperosa Synthesis ($31).  Barossa Valley blend of Grenache, Shiraz and Mataro delivers a palate pleasing result.  Super smooth and elegant, It's all class from start to finish.  Aug 16th, 2009

[John Fordham - The Sunday Telegraph]

2005

2005 Eperosa Elevation Shiraz ($35).  Barossa Valley newcomer featuring outstanding fruit selection and winemaking panache.  It's rousing deep spicy flavours will be enhanced with patient cellaring.  Sept 2008

[John Fordham - The Sunday Telegraph]

2005

Eperosa is one of a number of tiny producers presenting tasty snapshots of every little corner of the Barossa Valley.  The move is being driven by viticulturists and winemakers familiar with this very complex and old grape-growing landscape - and not happy seeing wonderful fruit sent off to anonymous blends.  Eperosa belongs to viticulturist Brett Grocke.  He makes his reds in batches of just 100-200cases.  'Elevation' is a soft, elegant Shiraz, with liquorice like flavours, from vines grown above 300 metres.  'Totality is a beautifully fragrant, spicy, savoury blend of Mourvedre (aka Mataro) and Shiraz.  And 'Synthesis', combining Grenache, Mouvedre and Shiraz, is led by Grenache fragrance and fruitiness.

[Chris Shanahan - Thoughts on Wine]

2005

Eperosa owner Brett Grocke qualified as a Viticulturist in 2001, and, through Grocke Viticulture, consults and provides technical services to over 200Ha of vineyards spread across the Barossa Valley, Eden Valley, Adelaide Hills, Riverland, Langhorne Creek and Hindmarsh Valley.  He is ideally placed to secure small parcels of grapes of the highest quality, and treats these with no frills winemaking methods: destemmed, macerated prior to fermentation, open fermentation, hand plunging, basket pressed, then 18 months in used French oak barrels.  The wines are of impeccable quality.

 

2005 Totality 94 points

 

2005 Synthesis 93 points

 

2005 Elevation 91 points

[James Halliday - 2010 Australian Wine Companion]