The palate is full-bodied and greets you with juicy red-black fruits followed by toasty hazel-nutty oak and chocolate. Well structured, this is a complex wine with fruit at the fore but background oak in support.
Deep purple-crimson; this medium-bodied shiraz was matured in exactly measured French and American oak, and is a class act; it oozes red and black fruits, but has a positively elegant back-palate and finish; sparklets of spice and licorice lead the flavour dance.
Quite glorious. Intense blackberried fruit comes stitched with dried herbs and particularly earthen notes; toasty oak both sweetens and extends the flavours; and then the finest, classiest tannin pulls it all through to an ultra persistent finish. A class.
The colour is excellent, and the seamless fusion between the bouquet and palate likewise; the French oak is obvious, but I don't have the slightest doubt it will sink back into intense red and black cherry fruit given time. Send a bottle to Guigal.
