Summerfield 2004 Shiraz Aug 06

Tasting Note

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Summerfield 2004 Shiraz Aug 06

The bouquet is brooding but shows plumb, spices and hints of coffee/mocha. The wine is driven by abundant, pure fruit but solidly backed with enough unobtrusive, smooth tannins to hold it together and produce a supple mouth-feel. Blackcurrant/black cherry, plum, aniseed, and herbal cigar box flavours finish with excellent persistence and punch. The flavour profile is attractive; it's sweet on the uptake with a spicy mid-palate and finishes off savoury. The clean and modern Shiraz, it's an ample-weight, very easy drinking wine that will improve in the short term; this is more than just a crowd pleaser. Rated as Recommended with **** for value, it is ready to drink now. Cost $23 from the winery and sealed under screwcap.