McWilliams Maurice O’Shea 1999 Shiraz – April 03

Wine tasted completely blind

Soft, warm slightly spicy, almost floral perfumed nose with subtle white pepper and sweet berry notes and coffee, unusual but pleasant.

Creamy tannins that could do with a little more time to loose the slightly dusty notes, well judged refreshing acid and solid deeply seated fruit without extraction. Drinks well now due to the creamy tannins that come from the obvious French Oak influence but it will last too. Its full bodied without being heavy or extracted and seems to be fruit driven, but the balance is there to support the structure.

Interesting and unusual palate flavour profile with black pepper, black espresso coffee and some chocolaty plums with a good length finish, it’s a most enjoyable wine. And the biggest surprise when I unmasked it and found it was that it’s from the Hunter!

Rated as Highly Recommended, with *** for value this wine is worth buying.