96 Point Rated - Dave Brookes Halliday Wine Companion
"This year's Johann's Garden is 92/8% grenache/mataro grown in the Barossa Valley, vinified separately and aged in seasoned French hogsheads for 10 months. Magenta-splashed crimson in the glass with super-pure fruit tones on display: red and dark plum, blueberry and boysenberry with underlying hints of exotic spice, gingerbread, purple floral tones, teacake, rhubarb, cherry clafoutis and mountain herbs. Succulent yet tending savoury on the finish with a real sense of purity and grace; superfine powdery tannin lending gentle support and a bright, mineral line."

94 Point Rated - Campbell Mattinson The Wine Front
"I tasted this fairly briefly at the winery but it impressed mightily. It’s mostly grenache with a spot of mataro. Cracking wine. So perfumed, so well shaped and so lengthy, for sure, but what really gets me excited is the profile of the fruit. It’s seriously lovely. Hay, earth, sweet raspberry, flashes of blueberry and violet with inputs from spice, almost pepper. Velvety aspect to the texture, particularly to the tannin. Wonderful stuff."

94 Point Rated - Gary Walsh The Wine Front
"Ripe red berries, rosehip and redcurrant, some liquorice and dried herb, vanilla and toasted nuts. It’s juicy, ripe plum and red fruits, fine silty tannin, nutty and a little savoury, but also offering a charming mouth-perfume of flowers, mint and scrub herbs. Finish is long and fine. Texture and perfume. It’s an excellent wine."

93 Point Rated - Huon Hooke The Real Review
"Deep-ish purple-red colour, bright; aromas are restrained and very fresh, youthful and primal, perhaps unwooded—at least in part. The wine is sumptuously rich in flavour and fruit sweetness, persuasive tannins flooding in as well to provide a pleasant structural backbone. It's very young as yet but already delicious, and looks to have massive potential."

93 Point Rated - Andrew Caillard MW The Vintage Journal
"Fresh red plum, redcurrant aromas with roasted walnut, hint vanilla notes. Generous and silky textured wine with ripe strawberry, red plum, redcurrant fruits, sinuous fine tannins, lovely mid-palate viscosity, underlying savoury notes and fresh quartz-like acidity. Finishes chalky and round with aniseed notes. Delicious drinking."