Chateau Pato 'old Pokolbin vineyard' shiraz 2003 (review)

87 points

Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia. 14.5% screwcap.

Lots of different flavours, all over the place, so let me sum up the wine first... a sleek soft fat alcoholic sweet wine with savoury tones - some 2000 Chateaunef-du-Pape wines come (somewhat) close in style. Very approachable.

Sweet but saved by smokey oak. And the slightly cowshed finish is attractive - really.

Something of a show pony wine yet not in the commercial show style, sort of show pony for the cognoscenti. $27