Flaxman 2005 The Stranger Jan 07

Tasting Note

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Flaxman 2005 The Stranger Jan 07

A Barossa blend of 60% Shiraz and 40% Cabernet made from brought in grapes; 160 dozen have been produced added is sealed with a screwcap. The bouquet Is inviting and shows excellent complexity with plum, chocolate, vanilla, coffee, blueberry and blackcurrant. A very youthful wine with fresh acid and deeply seated fruit that is well backed by tight, unobtrusive, slightly chalky, drying tannins. Fruit driven; blackcurrant, blackberry, plum, aniseed, vanilla, and coffee/mocha flavours finish with good persistence and reasonable length. It's a muscular-weight wine that's a veritable baby and needs another four years to hit its straps. Rated as Highly Recommended with *** for value, the rating should improve as the wine reaches its peak around 2011. This wine is certainly worth buying and with time should develop very nicely. Even in its youth, it is food friendly and went superbly with bocconcini with basil, tomato and a good balsamic vinegar. It is available from the winery for $420 a dozen.