Waninga 1999 Shiraz – April 2003

The medium charring to the oak and cloves from it dominate the aroma and cover the berry and chocolate aromas.

A well balanced wine, the tannins are adequate support to the mid weight fruit and the acid is still very youthful, so ideally the wine needs a few years to reach its peak. Flavour intensity and length are exceedingly good for a wine in this price bracket.

On the plate the once again char dominates the cloves, plum and chocolate flavours which is a shame as there is some good fruit there, but then readers should understand that I have a prejudice against charry oak.

No doubt those that don’t mind char would rate this wine higher than my Agreeable with *** for value.