Intense red and dark fruit flavours in abundance with more complex characters of earth, minerals, mushrooms and floral aromas. Only 60 dozen produced from our small patch of Cabernet vines planted in 1965.
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.
