Tasting Note

                 Sydney Time

           Copyright © Ric Einstein 2008

DogRock 2005 Shiraz VicFeb08 sells for $22 direct from the winery and is sealed under screwcap. The broody bouquet shows a touch of lifted volatiles with plum, chocolate, mocha and earthy notes. The palate shows pleasant, savoury, plummy fruit on the uptake and leads to pepper on the mid-palate, with a slight sappiness to the respectable length finish. There is nothing sweet about this drop at all. Abundant, slightly powdery tannins provide a very solid backbone to this medium-weight wine with a supple consistency and agreeable complexity. A good food wine, it needs a couple of years to settle down and for the tannins to integrate. Rated as Acceptable with *** for value, the rating should improve as the wine enters its peak drinking window between 2010 and 2015.