PAST ACCOLADES AND AWARDS

James Halliday: 93 (2013)
Medium purple-red; an unashamedly full-bodied wine, with a super-abundant scrum of blackberry, plum, black cherry, licorice and ripe tannins, and oak hidden in the middle.

Mike Bennie: 92+
The First Drop dudes don’t play by the rules. Wow, that sounds so dramatic. But it is refreshing to see a couple of wine-heads getting out there doing it their way. They label with pop culture sensibility, source fruit from great vineyards and fiddle with sexy varieties like Touriga Nacional and Montepulciano. But the boys find their best when working with the rich, ripe fruits of the Barossa... Mother’s Milk is a staple for First Drop. It’s their entry level wine, of sorts, and rarely a disappointment since its first release. The aromatics are heady and dense – a pot pourri of game meats, stewed plums, sweet spice and clod earth with a brooding Barossa red and black fruit core. The lithe, medium weight palate teeters the same way, but shows, in their words, slurpy texture. Agreed times infinity. Case in point; I caught myself going for the swallow in a line-up I was spitting through. Seductive, yes, but not without pure fruit flavour, bounce of tannin or slatey acidity to keep things interesting and fresh. Sure, it’s not the most cerebral wine around, but far out, it’s a genuine guzzler. Hand me a pint glass.

Jamie Goode's Wine Blog: 92+
14.5% alcohol. Rich, forward, vibrant blackberry and blackcurrant fruit nose. Sweet and pure with some meat and tar overtones. The palate is dense, concentrated and sweetly fruited with some grippy, spicy structure and subtle mint and tar notes, as well as a bit of creamy vanilla richness. A little angular at the moment, but showing a lovely concentration of summer pudding fruit, with great purity and some supporting oak. Joyful.