"I have tasted (and bought) this wine back to the 1996 vintage, so I am familiar with its mood swings and changeable temperament. In 2020 RunRig is an MMA thoroughbred with an awe-inspiring power-to-weight ratio and a brooding, ever-so-slightly scary degree of intensity balanced by cathedral-like calm. This is the finest ever young RunRig I have tasted, and if you fancy another tenuous mental image, then this is the darkest of night skies with no moon in evidence at all. You cannot even see your hand in front of your
face, and when you taste this wine, it seems like it is the only wine in the world. Unlike The Factor, it is closed, commanding, immovable and all-encompassing, but there are the very first hints of pliability and tenderness appearing along its flanks. When this wine starts to unwind, it will undoubtedly reveal more chapters of fruit than any RunRig before it and I imagine it will run for decades such is its pedigree. If any wine in this line-up left me breathless, it is 2020 RunRig. Drink 2029 – 2045. 20+pts."
Matthew Jukes
- Group:
- Wine
- Region:
- Barossa Valley
- Size:
- 750ml
- Style:
- Shiraz
- Vault:
- Yes
- Type:
- Red
- Vintage:
- 2016