Young and Spunky
This wine is young, spunky and amazing. When I opened up the bottle plum aromas burst out and filled the room. I stuck my nose into the glass to get a better sense of the aroma and almost fell over from the alcohol. Its 14.5% and that’s a lot for a wine, the standard is 13%. I was expecting this wine to be like most Australian Shiraz’s, a fruit bomb, but it is much more reserved (a good thing). The experience starts with a pleasing fruit profile of dark cherries and blackberries, then out of nowhere the fruit drops out , does a flip in your mouth and shows its oakiness.
Submitted: 7/2/09