AUSTRALIAN WINE COMPANION 2008 James Halliday
Golden colour utterly appropriate to the nectar-like aromas and honey/honeysuckle flavours, the sweetness perfectly balanced by acidity.
Rating: 94 points

SUN HERALD - 8/6/2008
Turkey Flat Last Straw Marsanne 2005, (375m1)
Last Straw pays tribute to the Rhone Valley's "vin de paille", a wine made from grapes dried on straw mats to concentrate the sugars and flavours. It smells of apricots, vanilla and honeysuckle. The rich, intense palate is sweet and viscous with a dry finish. Food: Serve as an aperitif with duck parfait. Ageing: Drink now to 2018.
Rating: Five Stars

AUSTRALIAN WINE COMPANION 2007 James Halliday
A very complex, eclectic style using partially dried grapes; flavour and structure ranging through honey, hay and malt; not overly sweet, cellaring will certainly yield much.
Rating: 92 Points. Drink: 2014.

THE ADVERTISER 24/9/2008 Tony Love
Sourced from the Stonewell sub-region, the pretty floral aromatics also have a faint mint-leaf edge, very attractive in the process especially when what follows is a light honey drizzle over apple and peach fruit salad. Best of all, it's upright with good acidity and brightness - very spritely, very sexy, too.
Rating: 93 Points.

AUSTRALIAN WINE COMPANION 2007 James Halliday
Honeysuckle, spice and dried apricots; a spaetlese level of sweetness; has absorbed all the new French oak in which it was barrel-fermented and matured. Classy if esoteric.
Rating: 92 Points. Drink: 2010.

THE WINE FRONT - Campbell Mattinson, January 2005
Made from partially dried grapes and then matured in French oak - the oak in particular giving it an unusual array of confectioned flavour. Coconut, almond, lavender and musk, with a thread of dried apricots packed in old wood. It finishes well, and is highly unusual, but its price seems way off the mark.
Rating : 89 Points