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From Spain's
Catalonia Spain
A wine of exuberance, ripe with a sensuous background of meatyness and liqueured cherry, barnyard, olives and spice. The soft, seamless oak and tenacious tannins persist to the lingering finish, closing to impressions of leather and bramble, ribena and black olive.
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Torres Sangre de Toro 2010
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From Victoria's
Yarra Valley
Deeply aromatic and flavourful, this silky-fine, smooth and stylish red tightly marries the best of both varieties with some pleasing reductive complexity. Piercing cherry, plum and berry flavours, it’s framed by smooth but firm tannins.
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ½
Yering Station Shiraz Viognier 2010
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From South Australia's
Adelaide Plains
Completely engrossing palate of vibrantly fresh red fruits, the finish supported by a mattress of gently yielding tannins and disciplined background oak.
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Longhop Shiraz 2011
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From Victoria's
Goulburn
A delight to savour for it's open knit palate of cherries and spice, lightly toasted oak and fragrances of summer berries. The velvetine mouthfeel and exquisite fruits are draped across a framework of firm but fair, healthy and judicious tannins.
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Sugarloaf Creek Estate Shiraz 2005
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From New South Wales's
In unapologetically Claret styling, a fully rounded palate with red and purple, cocoa infused fruit, bramble, tobacco and puckering, cassis flavoured acids.
☆ ☆ ☆ ½
McGuigan Black Label Red
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From South Australia's
McLaren Vale
Dancing, swaying, grooving to the music, a cadence of moist plum and luscious berry characters cavorting on a stage of fine, polished oak.
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Dowie Doole Merlot 2010
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From South Australia's
Barossa
Elderton gets it right everytime, their minor leagues are as satisfying as their flagships. A praiseworthy effort with fragrances of violet and pepper before a personable palate of blackberry and currant supported by parched licorice tannins.
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Elderton E Series Shiraz Cabernet 2010
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From Western Australia's
Frankland River
Bright currant and red plum aromas before an assertive display of bona fide rhone shiraz highlights, piquant acids and spiced regional hints. An attractive style with lingering savoury tannins.
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Flametree Frankland River Shiraz 2009
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From South Australia's
McLaren Vale
The bouquets here can't wait to get out of the bottle, a pandora's box (in a good way) of intoxicating fruit. A mouthful of winegums and jujube, raspberry, vanillan and spice.
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Chateau Reynella Cabernet Sauvignon 2007
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From Western Australia's
Margaret River
Layered with flavours just like a cake it seems, mint and maraschino, chocolate sponge doused in kirsch, piquant sour cherries, currants and clove, assignations of olive and pepper spice, cedary oak and velvet tannins, all the right goods and in fine form.
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Brookland Valley Verse 1 Shiraz 2011
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From South Australia's
Eden Valley
Beautifully aromatic Cabernet, dizzying vapours of currant, complex herb, cassis, toast and mealy oak, plummy acids.
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Henschke Cyril Cabernet 2006
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From South Australia's
Barossa & Eden
Made to measure Cabernet with the most inspiring levels of black cherry, currant and cassis fruit characters, sweet clovey oak and soft simmering tannins. A legend of the Barossa and a must have with succulent red meats.
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ½
Pepperjack Barossa Cabernet Sauvignon 2011
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From Victoria's
Rutherglen
Honeycomb and oak, sweet and dry candied appley pork, rancio and raisins, walnut and praline. The most highly perfumed nectar in extremely tiny, very precious amounts.
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Chambers Rosewood Grand Muscat 375ml
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From South Australia's
McLaren Vale
Big bold intense bouquets bordering on vapours of wildly aromatic plum and cassis-like fruit, heady flavour profiles, extraordinary length, and tannins that are so luxuriant you feel that you can suck on them like some sort of treat. One of Australia's very best.
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dArenberg Dead Arm Shiraz 2002 1.5L MAGNUM
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From New South Wales's
Hanwood began the tradition of heart warming Shiraz wines from the sun drenched Riverina. A splendid drink that never dates, smooth tannins and controlled oak underpin a gazzette of bright, mouthfiilling fruits, plum, pepper, cherry and dates, before a clean, stylish finish.
☆ ☆ ☆ ½
Hanwood Estate Shiraz 2011
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From South Australia's
Adelaide Hills
Resonant Shiraz with all the elements in concert, under control and in unison, the crisp fruit and stout tannins are followed by a chorus of concurring, cigarbox oak, the finish lingers to suggestions of cinamon coffee with mint, easter bun, prune and blackberry.
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ½
Longview Yakka Shiraz 2009
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