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Review	Product Name	Vintage	Rating	Date Sort ascending	Favorite
Shaw + Smith - Wine Enthusiast	Pinot Noir	2017	93	Aug-2020
Review “You can tell straight away that this wine, with its translucent cherry hue, will be bright and bouncy. It smells like freshly squeezed cherry and strawberry juice, underscored by cinnamon stick, flowers and minerals. The palate is as light and fresh as the color and aroma suggest. The red berry flavors crunch and crackly amid a silky texture and gentle tug of tannins. Light, bright and a little stalky at the finish, this is a crowd-pleaser of a Pinot to be drunk fairly young and slightly chilled.” (Editors' Choice)
Shaw + Smith - Wine Enthusiast	M3 Chardonnay	2016	89	Jun-2020
Review “There’s a lot of winemaking going on here, and a little bottle age as well. The nose is rich and toffee-like, swirling with vanilla, ripe pineapple and honeyed nuts. There’s a slight oniony reduction still present, too. The palate is less weighty than the nose implies, thanks mainly to bright acidity that helps counteract the fleshy fruit and oak influence. In any case, this is a full-figured style that some will love and others will run from.”
Shaw + Smith - JancisRobinson.com	M3 Chardonnay	2017	16.5 out of 20	May-2020
Review “Water white. Light nose – not desperately expressive aromatically at this point but with great delicacy of texture underneath. I’d wait a little to let it bloom. Hints of grapefruit peel on the end but no exaggeration. Texture is all at the moment!”
Shaw + Smith - Decanter	M3 Chardonnay - 2018	2018	94	May-2020
Review “The high-altitude, cool-climate Lenswood sub-region is the source of many of the Adelaide Hills’ best Chardonnays – notably Geoff Weaver, Henschke and Shaw & Smith, with its top-of-the-range Lenswood single-vineyard Chardonnay (£50) as well as this M3. Flinty and linear with precision and restraint, it has piercing acidity and ample stone and citrus fruit with a real wild-yeast tang. Fermented and aged nine months in barrel with lees stirring.”
Shaw + Smith - Australian Wine Review	Pinot Noir	2018	92	Apr-2020
Review “Martin Shaw & Michael Hill-Smith’s Pinot has had a constant evolution, the style evolving from a robust, dry reddish Pinot to now more medium bodied and with a fruit source of Lenswood, higher up in the hills. Works too, with this Shaw + Smith Pinot Noir 2018 anything but heavy. In fact it’s rounded, mouthfilling and silken. Serve it to me blind and you’d be forgiven calling it Grenache, though without the warmer clime glycerol and alcohol. It arguably has less pinosity, but maybe more drinkability than some releases. Affable. Charming, if just a little too raspberried without the savour to match. Still, I challenge you not to like it.”
Shaw + Smith - TEXSOM International Wine Awards	Pinot Noir	2018	Bronze	Mar-2020
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Shaw + Smith - TEXSOM International Wine Awards	M3 Chardonnay	2017	Platinum	Mar-2020
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Shaw + Smith - TEXSOM International Wine Awards	Shiraz	2016	Gold	Mar-2020
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Shaw + Smith - Halliday	Shiraz	2006	97	Feb-2020
Review “Brilliant crimson, it has voluminous plum, black cherry and spice aromas, replayed on the very intense and focused palate, which has glorious length and line.”
Shaw + Smith - Winston - Salem Journal	Pinot Noir	2017		Jan-2020
Review “Foresty and spice aromas. Cherry, currants, herbs and spice on the palate. A bit lean. Good plus.”

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