Tasting Note

                 Sydney Time

           Copyright © Ric Einstein 2008

Nashwauk 2006 Beacon Shiraz SASept07 will sell for $80 at cellar door when it is released next year and is sealed under cork; only hundred and thirty dozen have been produced. The wine had just been beaten up with the addition of sulphur, so we were seeing it at its worst. Ultra-fine, velvety tannins combine with pristine, deeply-seated fruit to form a wine that is just muscular in weight, with a layered, tight as a French letter structure that should become seamless in time. It's restrained, quality wine and all it needs is time, and a big slab of rare fillet steak. Coffee, mocha, plum, multiple chocolate flavours, black cherry and blackberry are intertwined in sweet and off-sweet layers that ripple down the palate. Rated as Excellent with *** for value, drink from 2013 and beyond.