98pts James Suckling

Powerful, polished and impressive, showing great concentration and depth. A good portion of petit verdot adds even darker fruit to the majority of cabernet sauvignon. This offers dried blueberries, crushed blackberries, cocoa, graphite, minerals and dusky plums on muscular tannins that will carry it for decades. Full-bodied. Best after 2030.

96pts Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

A preliminary selection, still subject to some tweaking (or complete reassessment), the 2022 Black Magic features red berry-tinged fruit on the nose, while the full-bodied palate is rich and concentrated, with terrific length and silky tannins on the finish.preliminary selection, still subject to some tweaking (or complete reassessment), the 2022 Black Magic features red berry-tinged fruit on the nose, while the full-bodied palate is rich and concentrated, with terrific length and silky tannins on the finish.

Winemaker Notes

The 2022 Black Magic is always the most intense and dark/tension filled wine of ours when young, this year‘s Black Magic is no different. Showing loads of roasted meats, Christmas baking spices, black currant and anise on the initial taste and beginning of the palate. This has copious black tea and graphite notes on the mid palate, which just exudes power and richness, before it slowly tapers off to a finish that just doesn’t seem to quit for minutes on end