Tasting Notes

WA97

The estate’s prodigious flagship offering is the 2001 Shiraz Black Guts. Made from 35- to 40-year-old vines, and aged 30 months in a combination of new and old French oak and a bit of new American wood, it boasts a blue/black color as well as a fabulous bouquet of smoke, creosote, Asian spices, white flowers, and blackberry liqueur. Dense, full-bodied, and voluptuous, with fabulous precision, good acidity, magnificent concentration, and a fabulous finish, this is the kind of wine that only a handful of South Australia vineyards can consistently achieve. There is virtually nothing like it produced anywhere else in the world. It should drink well for 15+ years.

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