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rmcnees wrote:

Friday, July 4, 2014 - While big, complex and concentrated, this '9' Shiraz has proven to be a wine to be consumed during its first 7-8 years of life as this eleven year old attests. This like others vintages held beyond ten years is showing its age as the intense fruit is giving way to a funkiness of non-fruit wood, leather and earth notes.

In their youth, they were big vibrant powerful wines with super rich, ripe luscious tongue-coating fruit sourced from McLaren and Padthaway in South Central Australia.

The 2003 Shiraz 9 at eleven years of age is still opaque inky purple-colored, full-bodied, complex, intensely concentrated tongue coating notes of super ripe currants, plum but the aging fruits are taking on notes of raisin and fig with tones of espresso roast, smoked meats and leather on the layer of mocha, burnt sugar with hints of anise and white pepper. It still has leathery texture on the lingering finish.

http://unwindwine.blogspot.com/2014/07/marquis-philips-9-mclaren-vale-shiraz.html

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