2003 Elderton Shiraz

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  9/3/2017 - PeterjW Likes this wine: 88 Points

  fruit highly extracted with high alcohol but good balance and finish

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  1/27/2017 - acyso wrote: 83 Points

  Quite jammy. Ripe and heavy with lots of sweet fruit. Heavily extracted. Nothing special and lacking all the good spice and meat notes from a decent syrah. Feels a touch hot.

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  5/24/2016 - Renot wrote: 90 Points

  Still quite good, surprisingly.

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  3/23/2015 - Javachip wrote: 90 Points

  14.5% alcohol. Clear dark garnet color with clear oxalate/tartrate crystals on sides of glass.. Notes of sweet cherry pie, rhubarb compote, boysenberry jam, sweet spicy oak. Certainly qualifies as an Aussie fruit bomb but manages to stay fresh and reasonably balanced.

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  9/11/2014 - J @ y H @ c k wrote: 91 Points

  Popped and poured with a group of wine-interested but not fanatic business colleagues at an after dinner football watching session at a conference. I bought this bottle almost exactly 9 years ago for $28.99 at Zachy's when the owners or winemakers were there pouring. The label bore the autograph of one of them. I had a 2009 Cote du Rhone, a 2010 Rivers Marie pinot, an 2009 Outpost Zin, a 2012 Moscato and a 2005 Haut Bergey at the conference. First, the impressions of others. When I asked them what to open, I got two "Oh, I don't like Shiraz." So, of course, I opened this wine and poured it without explanation for the two people who said they did not like shiraz. "This is great wine. I love it. It's really smooth with nice fruity flavors and some spice." When revealed as shiraz, they said it was thew best shiraz they ever had, we then talked about it an they said that their experience with shiraz always involved bitterness, especiallly at the back of the palate. I agree that Aussi Shiraz that is both cheap and young is infested with that characteristic. And if you think it's bad now, you should have tasted it 30 years ago. Ugh, the cheap crap that was coming from Australia. Well, no more. This is an extremely well made wine that, with a little patience, flowers into an outstanding bottle. I had an aged Elderton Command recently that was superb and this, although not as good, is on the same linear flavor profile. The nose is plum with a floral component. The palate is red fruit with cherry, blueberry and plum. There is some spice but not a lot. Compared t the Outpost Zin, for example, which has a lot of Howell Mountain pepper, this is light on the spice component.
  
  The wine disappeared quickly and, coincidentally, was a great educational opportunity for the uninitiated on the advantages of not buying wine at 6 pm on the way home from work and then drinking it with dinner.
  
  There was sediment in the wine, but even though I had driven 200 miles with the wine bouncing in a styro case in my car, a lot of the sediment was still stuck to the side of the bottle. I recommend a careful decant to avoid the sediment but no waiting time necessary before drinking.

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