This is a serious beast of a wine. I loved it & in researching the price in Oz just now I discovered that Robert Parker did too, giving it 92 points (which equates to something like ‘a wine of exceptional quality’). Massive rich fruit (black cherry & plum) underlaid with spicey notes from the fruit & the clean but not obtrusive oak – cinnamon, vanilla, black pepper, star anise. A lovely well balanced wine, relatively long & offers a lot for the price & remarkably it does manage to carry off that level of alcohol. Not so my head 🙁
And of course available at Uncorked. If you’re wondering, no I don’t have links to this company, they’re just my most local decent wine store who always help me out, which I appreciate!
Or if you’re in oz & don’t mind taking a gamble on the vintage these people seem outrageously affordable: