96 points - Ray Jordan, Wine Pilot
The source of this excellent wine is the Elderton Nuriootpa vineyard, with vines that are now up to 128 years of age. This is a typically powerful wine but with an elegance that comes with this very good vintage. The aromas show traces of blackcurrant, bay leaf and a little olive tapenade with a slightly oyster shell minerality. The palate has a juicy feel with delicious, spicy fruits supported by fine tannins and a combination of new and seasoned French oak. A first rate wine.
94+ points - Andrew Caillard MW, The Vintage Journal
Medium-deep crimson. Blackcurrant, cedar spice, mocha aromas. Generous and inky textured with cassis, blackberry dark chocolate flavours, grainy firm tannins and well-balanced marzipan vanilla notes. Finishes cedar firm and minerally. Attractive maturation complexity and flow. Drink now–2040
94 points - Angus Hughson, Vinous
The 2022 Ode to Lorraine delivers a generous and multi-layered Barossa experience with juicy blackcurrant, black cherry and black olive aromas with a reserved oak profile. This has impressive density of fruit and mouth-filling tannins. Its structure in particular marks this as something special for the cellar.
94 points - Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion
52/44/4% cabernet sauvignon/shiraz/merlot this year with a lovely clarity and detail to the aromatic profile. Macerated black-fruits and juicy plum tones with hints of fine spice, red apple, olive tapenade, chocolate, dried herbs and cedar. All is harmonious and nicely set on the palate, chalky tannins providing grip and a sense of freshness as the wine fades out.
93 points - Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
The 2022 Ode To Lorraine is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz and Merlot, and it is a gorgeous blend of the three. If you asked me to typify a Barossan blend of these varieties, it wouldn't be anything like this...fine and spicy, balanced and fresh. It speaks of plums and cranberries, red apples and cranberries. There's an emergent theme at this estate for red fruit characters today: cherry, pomegranate and plums, and the wines are medium-bodied and fine. Having said that, the tannins hold good shape through the finish and are chewy, which I like. All of the fruit for this wine was grown on the Nuriootpa estate; the vineyard is outside the beautiful old cellar door, which once served as the Ashmead family home.
93 points - Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot
Perhaps not the most typical blend found in the wine world, 52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 44% Shiraz and 4% Merlot, the fruit comes from their Nuriootpa vineyard, with some vines well over 100 years. It spent twenty months maturing in a mix of new and older French puncheons. A deep maroon and ruby red hue, bold cassis notes dominate the nose. It is well supported by aromas of mulberries, fresh earth, coffee grinds and mushrooms. The wine lifts even further on the palate with fresh acidity, energy, a degree of plushness, balance and excellent length. It finishes with satiny tannins and persistence. Enjoy over the next six to eight years, likely considerably longer.
