The Wine Advocate – „Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2012 The Boxer Shiraz opens with tons of intense chocolate, vanilla and spice intermingling with an aromatic core of ripe and berry preserves. Very big, full and rich, it is so concentrated you could practically stand a spoon up in the glass. The medium-level velvety tannins hold through the long, slightly hot, finish.“ (Aix Vinum, Aachen, Kleinmarschierstrasse)
One can hardly pass a comb through this session (ECM 1145) without singling out „The Laws Of Freedom“. With a minimal and open sense of play from Balke over the subtlest of drones one can imagine, this breathtaking journey into a piano´s beating heart turns reverberation into cloud and spirit, and presses between them footsteps of air.