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SKU 879981
$1,514.40/case
$252.40/bottle
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Deep garnet with a touch of purple, the 2010 Shiraz The Armagh offers a beautiful black fruit core, yielding notes of crushed blackberries and blueberries, with an undercurrent of coffee and spice box, plus touches of earth and raw meat. Full-bodied and built like a brick house, it has concentrated, very youthful fruit that reveals many layers in the long, long finish.
Known as Syrah in most countries around the world, and Shiraz in Australia and certain other regions of the New World, this grape varietal has proven over the centuries to be one of the most powerful and flavorful red wine grapes there is. It is now one of the planet's most widely grown grapes, and is a favorite with wineries as a result of its robustness and versatility. It isn't easy to identify many characteristics of this particular varietal, due to the fact that it is highly versatile and shows significant differences in flavor and character depending on the terroir it is grown in, and the climatic conditions of the region. However, Syrah is most widely associated with full bodied, strong and loud red wines, packed full of fruity and spicy flavors, held in a beautifully deep red liquid.
Country
Australia
Whilst most of Australia consists of arid deserts and dense bushland, the oceanic coasts to the south of the country have a terrain and climate ideal for vine cultivation and wine production. It took several decades of failed attempts at the end of the 18th century in order to produce vines of a decent enough quality for making wine, but since those first false starts, the Australian wine industry has continued to grow and grow. Today, wine production makes up for a considerable part of the Australian economy, with exports in recent years reaching unprecedented levels and even overtaking France for the first time ever. Whilst the greatest successes in regards to quality have been the result of the Syrah grape varietal (known locally as Shiraz), Australia utilizes several Old World grapes, and has had fantastic results from Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Riesling, Chardonnay and more. As the Australian passion for locally produced wine continues to develop, wineries have begun experimenting with a wider range of grape varietals, meaning that nowadays it isn't uncommon to find high quality Australian wines made from Petit Verdot, Sangiovese, Tempranillo and Viognier, amongst many others.
Region
Mount Lofty Ranges
Appellation
Clare Valley
WA99pts
Wine Advocate
Deep garnet with a touch of purple, the 2010 Shiraz The Armagh offers a beautiful black fruit core, yielding notes of crushed blackberries and blueberries, with an undercurrent of coffee and spice box, plus touches of earth and raw meat. Full-bodied and built like a brick house, it has concentrated, very youthful fruit that reveals many layers in the long, long finish.
JS98pts
James Suckling
Stunning nose of blackberry and elderberry with wonderful spicy complexity, plus a touch of soot. Rich, elegant and youthful with an embarrassment of black and red fruit, plus tannins and an extremely long, poised finish. Decades of life ahead of it! Drink or hold. Screw cap.
DC98pts
Decanter
The Armagh vineyard – a northwest-facing sun trap – was planted to Shiraz by Jim Barry in 1968. A bottomless pit of perfumed, plush, liquorice-edged cassis, blackcurrant, blueberry and mulberry fruits, with bitter chocolate and roast coffee oak nuances, this spent 16 months in French (60%) and American oak hogsheads (85% new). Harmony trumps opulence here, and its supple tannins and acidity harness and extend the fruit, subtly tapering the finish, leaving you wanting more.
VM95pts
Vinous Media
Glass-staining ruby. Complex, deeply perfumed aromas of ripe black and blue fruits, incense, vanilla, peppery spices and pungent flowers. Supple and broad on the palate, offering impressively concentrated, alluringly sweet blueberry, cherry-vanilla and floral pastille flavors that flesh out and become spicier with air. Shows superb energy and seamless texture on a strikingly long, sweet finish framed by velvety, fine-grained tannins.
WS94pts
Wine Spectator
Impressively dense, with espresso, tobacco and licorice-scented huckleberry and cherry flavors at the core. The fleshy tannins have an appealing chewy side, showing plenty of spice and pepper accents on the long finish. Drink now through 2028. 50 cases imported.
Winery Notes
Colour: Crimson red with a magenta hue in the glass.
Aroma: A complex and fragrant nose combining lifted elderberry and dark plum with choc mint, hints of liquorice and graphite notes.
Palate: An intense palate of sweet forest floor, red cherry and milk chocolate, intertwined with notes of baking spice and aniseed. The palate is long and lingering, firm tannins with flavours of damson plumbs, blueberry compote and toasty chestnut from the oak. A wine of enormous complexity and longevity.
