Burge Family 2004 Draycott Shiraz January 2006

Tasting Note

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Burge Family 2004 Draycott Shiraz January 2006

The wine opened with a touch of nose-tickling VA; vanilla and chocolate scents showed over dark, plummy fruits with hints of earthy spices. This is a wine for structuralists; it’s well-balanced, very clean, perfectly judged, well poised and in short, a lovely wine that should age well; but if you want to get the most from it, it will need to be cellared for at least five years. Smooth, very fine, tightly-grained drying tannins combine with deeply-seated, pure fruit to deliver an ample-weight wine with a firm consistency, solid structure, and very well-developed complexity that is currently locked up. All the right flavours are there in abundance, nothing overripe or jammy here; its savoury plum, a grind of pepper, vanilla, chocolate and blackcurrant combined together magnificently, although the plum and spice are the dominant flavours. Rated as Highly Recommended with **** for value, the rating should improve as the wine matures.