John Duval Wines Eligo Shiraz 2019 - Museum Release

Tasting Note

Lifted black fruit, plum and blackberry are layered with hints of anise, clove and earth. Powerful and deeply expressive, the palate is packed with vibrant fruit layers, commanding depth of flavour, spice and liquorice, finishing with integrated fine grippy tannins. Approachable in its youth, it also promises excellent cellaring potential, rewarding patience over the next fifteen years and beyond.

Awards & Accolades

96 Points
Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2019 vintage was the first in two consecutive drought years in the Barossa, and the wines are unsurprisingly concentrated and brooding. In this 2019 Eligo Shiraz, we see lashings of exotic spice, aniseed, liquorice and resinous char contained within a framework of fine, silty tannins. This is a big wine, make no mistake, but eminently balanced.
- Erin Larkin

95 Points
Halliday Wine Companion

In 2019, John Duval's subregional shiraz blend saw the Barossa Valley just nudge out the Eden Barossa Valley, 53/47% respectively. The Eligo has always been a study of concentration of fruit and detail and nothing has changed with this release. Powerful blackberry and plum fruits, graphite-cored and studded with spice, earth and dark chocolate. Substantial granitic tannin plunges through the heady fruit providing ample support and the finish trails off admirably.
- Dave Brookes

95 Points
The Real Review

Tremendously concentrated colour, deep, dark and brooding, and it stains the glass. Black pepper, iodine and spice aromas. The wine is very full bodied, massively structured and powerful, the tannins grippy but balanced. It’s a wine that begs to be cellared and will surely repay long keeping. A whopper, but it doesn’t overplay its hand. Oak and extraction have been superbly handled.
- Huon Hooke

95 Points
The Vintage Journal

Deep crimson. Intense black cherry, dark plum, vanilla aromas with marzipan notes. Richly concentrated wine with deep set black cherry, blackberry fruits, vanilla wax polish notes, fine gravelly al dente tannins. Acidity a touch pronounced but should settle down with time.
- Andrew Caillard MW