Opened a bottle of Mt Billy Antiquity Shiraz 2000 for dinner last night. This is one of my favourite wines. Made from century old vines, the nose was just in your face -- intense raspberry, black currant and wood. Very jammy and powerful on the palate, with spice, smoke, and black currant. A wonderful complex full-bodied wine. Below are comments from Winefront Monthly:
"Made by Dave Powell of Torbrek off century-old vines, this is the kind of wine that's just waiting for a good vintage in order to explode (which is probably why there's such a buzz surrounding the label right now). The initial release is unusually savoury, fascinatingly floral, rich, purple, spicy, blackberried, and has a nose of gunsmoke, beefstock and green tobacco. In the mouth it's a hunt of savoury, pencilly, blueberry and blackberry liquer with a sample of sweet caramel and a square tightening of tannin on the finish. Gorgeous flavour, intensity, cut-and-polished acid/oak with a bright tobaccoey-flavour acid reach, this is almost a great wine. Drink: 2004-2010. 87 points."
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