Ainsworth Estate 2001 Reserve Shiraz Oct 03 sells for $35 at cellar door. The wine was cropped at 1 tonne per acre. The bottle had just been opened and the attractive aroma initially showed good fruit but was unyielding and showed little else. Very fine grained mouth coating smooth drying tannins are well balanced by the pure medium fruit that expresses itself with intense berry, pepper, smoky oak, chocolate and mushroom that’s both very savoury and sweet at the same time. Structure is elegant, tight and layered; the complexity developed and sophisticated which combine to produce a just medium weight wine with excellent construction which should improve over the next four years and hold for years after. Rated as Highly Recommended with *** for value.