90 points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2005 Shiraz “Bad Impersonator” was sourced from a single vineyard and aged in French oak, 20% new. It offers a bouquet of cedar, spice box, pepper, clove, and blueberry. This leads to a layered wine with excellent depth, silky tannins, fine balance and even some elegance. Drink this lengthy, fruit-filled wine over the next 6 years. (10/07) 90 points Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar: Dark ruby. Smoky, graphite-accented blackberry and cassis aromas, with suave toasty oak adding complexity. Broad, fleshy and sweet, with deep blueberry and plum flavors gently lifted by slow-mounting acidity. Gains brightness on the finish, which features impressive sweetness allied with subtle mineral tones. (July/Aug '07)
Ares is black to the core. Attractive aromas of dark red and black fruits such as cherry, dried fig and Satsuma plum. The fruit characters are complemented by notes of spice, mocha, roasted coffee beans, dark chocolate and cedar. Ares represents the very best selection of Shiraz from Two Hands Wines. A statuesque, powerful and deeply flavured wine matured in 100% new French oak.
Deep red with a black core. The bouquet is classic McLaren Vale showing notes of warm plums, blueberries, mulberry, mocha and subtle hints of coconut husk. Bold, rich and round. Crammed full of plummy fruit spice and Christmas cake. Finishes round, soft and cuddly yet very seductive. This wine is fun to drink now and will age well up to 10 years.
This is undeniably medium to full-bodied, but does not overwhelm you with the Parkeresque gobfuls of fruit; here tannins replace the bitter chocolate to provide a savoury/earthy flourish to a very good wine.