Reviews and Awards

2004 Lunar Block Shiraz
The winery's flagship wine, it is only made in the best years. The grapes are sourced from 45-year-old vines and then basket pressed. The wine was matured for twenty nine months in new French oak. Most of the grapes from these vines regularly wind up in a wine that costs four times as much as the Lunar Block. Everyone should have hobby that produces something this good for the price.

The bouquet is inviting. Beautiful, clean fruit dominates the bouquet that is offset by spicy/smoky, vanillin oak characters. As it opened up, sweet fruit notes emerged. Pure, deeply-seated fruit is perfectly balanced to the fine tannins, and is lifted by bright acid. An interesting, contrasting flavour profile results from the plum, sour cherry, and sweet sarsaparilla flavours that finishes with reasonable length, and excellent persistence. There is a huge amount of fruit power for its muscular-weight. An ultra-tight, solid wine, that maintains some class, it demands time in the cellar, and this gorgeous baby is Rated as Highly Recommended with ***** for value and easily completes with wine is selling at $45, and more. The rating will improve as the wine enters its peak drinking window between 2012 and 2020. Sealed under cork, it’s the best wine that Kurtz has produced and although it spent a long time in oak, it’s well judged and under control.
Ric Einstein- Torbwine Nov08

A most attractive medium-bodied wine, with a spirited display of warm spices on a bed of red and black fruits, the tannins ripe and oak subtle; excellent length. Has many similarities to the ’05 but with better colour and slightly more depth and length to the blackberry and spice fruit; perfect tannin and oak balance.
Rating 95 To 2016. James Halliday Australian Wine Companion 2010 Edition