2005 Jim Barry Shiraz The McRae Wood

Community Tasting Notes (25) Avg Score: 91.9 points

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  10/31/2020 - Wall_Bangers Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Good cork.
  Deep colour with brick rim.
  
  Nose: High intensity. Dark fruits, cocoa nibs, touch of eucalypt and subtle oak.
  Palate: Seamless. All at 15.5%ABV, handles it well. Dark fruits, spice, gentle tannins. Medium body and acid. Long finish.
  
  Drinking beautifully but still a bit left in the tank.

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  6/17/2020 - PeterjW Likes this wine: 92 Points

  lovely fruit driven nose with jammy black fruit gently spice and fine tannins

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  6/1/2020 - tanduybui Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Bordering on being an outstanding wine but missed it by a small margin. A full body wine, savoury, full mouthfeel and a terrific finish. On tasting, you will get dark fruit flavours with a hint of spice and perhaps smokiness. What stopped it from being an outstanding wine was perhaps a lack of depth of flavours and a lack of minerality. A terrific drop however, highly recommended.

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  5/17/2020 - Oenophile911 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Fantastic bottle of wine. Was wonderful on opening and got better through the evening once it opened up.

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  5/12/2020 - swiftr Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Very big, rich, deep—a great example of Jim Barry Shiraz. So good it’s hard to imagine that the Armagh could be much bigger, though it probably is. My regret is that I didn’t buy more of this vintage.

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