2007 Shiraz, FOUR STARS, Gourmet Traveller WINE Huon Hooke, Australian Gourmet Traveller, WINE , October 2010 Another well-made Clare red from Tim Adams, with a generous helping of crushed mint aromas over red and darker fruits. Palate is taut and elegant, mediume to full bodied, somewhat underrated and with ample fine grained tannins. A very honest shiraz. Download Snippet

Tim Adams tops Oz Clarke's 2011 list - and scores four in his top 20 Oz Clarke, Oz Clarke's 250 Best Wines, October 2010 Leading English critic Oz Clarke has judged Tim Adams 2007 Shiraz as the top wine in his influential book, 250 Best Wines 2011. I simpy can't think of another wine that matches beauty and power in the same way, that offers up immensely rich fruit, yet doesn't smash it with too much oak or scar it with too much tannin. The texture of this wine is like velvet - an overused phrase - but this time it's true. The flavours wash over your tongue, they caress your palate and linger long after you've swallowed. And those flavours? Sweet mint leaves, lush blackberry, finely focused blackcurrents rubbed with eucalyptus oil, all this in a cocoon of coconut and chocolate cream. I've tasted and drunk this wine a number of times this year - not just because I like it, but because I keep having to prove to myself that it is really is as good as it seems. Did I just have one supreme botle: will the others all be mored pediestrian? So I try again, and as the level in the glass sinks, the perfume and personality score upward; if I'm in drinking mood, the smile on my face just gets broader and broader." Download Snippet

Tim Adams 2007 Shiraz Rick Allen, Central Coast Express Advocate, August 2010 Clare Valley Winemaker Tim Adams has the wonderful knack of packing heaps of flavour into his wines yet always retaining great elegance. There's a 'nose' of red berries that follws through to the palate where some blackberry and darker fruit flavours also kick in, and then some spice and a hint of oak to finish off. The fact that it's his entry level wine speaks volumes for his top stuff. Download Snippet

Rewarding Reds John Lewis, The Newcastle Herald , July 2010 Tim Adam's flagship Aberfeldy are among my favourite shiraz reds and this smart, more modestly priced wine is partly made from Aberfeldy vineyard grapes. It is garnet hued and has branble jelly scents, intense blackcurrent flavour rolls onto the front of the palate and peppermint chocolate, spice and malt fruit characters integrate with nutty oak on the middle palate. Persistent berry fruit and flinty tannins marry at the finish. Download Snippet

Tim Adams 2007 Shiraz Lester Jesberg, Winewise, July 2010 Good rich dark berry and spice. Fleshiness together with dry savoury tannins create a satisfying palate. Download Snippet

Tim Adams 2007 Shiraz "The Tim Adams label has become one of the ever-reliables of Australian wine. " Campbell Mattison & Gary Walsh, The Big Red Wine Book , May 2010 The Tim Adams label has become one of the ever-reliables of Australian wine. He grows grapes in good soil, and pretty much delivers value and quality every time. Not too many producers you can say that of. 2007 Release Slippery, smooth, rich and delicious. Packed with plummy, vanilla, minty flavour and then controlled and dry through the finish. Not a hair out of place. Hints of comlpex earthiness in the background - flavours that would perform very well as the wine matures. Georgous red wine drinking. Drink 2010-2016. Download Snippet

FINELY CRAFTED: Tim Adams 2005 Shiraz Jeremy Oliver, The Australian Wine Annual , October 2009 There's a shade of currant-like flavour about this wine, but it is a finely crafted and effortlessly balanced shiraz of genuine regional character and identity. There's a hint of pepper and a spicy note of cinnamon beneath its vibrant aromas of redcurrants, raspberries and cassis, backed by lightly toasty vanilla oak. Long and lingering, firm and smooth, its palate of pristine blueberry and cassis-like flavour reveals undertones of meaty and slightly menthol/mint influences. Backed by polished oak, it finishes with lingering nuances of licorice and cloves. 93 points

VELVETY: Tim Adams 2006 Shiraz Campbell Mattinson & Gary Walsh, The Big Red Wine Book, June 2009 A baby doll of velvety, cuddly, rich plummy flavour, the feel of it on your tongue is so soft you'd swear it should be illegal ... Lots of creamy, perfumed, vanillin oak, but a delicious background of savoury earthiness, too. We love this. . June 2009 Download Snippet

EASY DRINKING: Tim Adams 2006 Shiraz Jim McMahon, Education (Sydney, April 2009 The nose is awash with red berry fruits ... together with spices ... roll onto the palate and combine to offer a softness in the mouth ... a soft, easy-drinking wine packed with fruit flavour and interwoven oak. Download Snippet

COMPLEX: Tim Adams 2006 Shiraz Kate Miller. Mortgage Business, March 2009 ... a complex shiraz with a soft, full palate and a good firm finish ... cellar for up to ten years for a more powerful experience. Download Snippet