Very stylish and generous, with a delicate, slightly subdued floral perfume scented with lime, lemon, apple and pear. Beginning to reveal some smoky, toasty complexity, itÕs classically long and austere, with a mouthfilling but shapely core of apple, pear, white peach and lemony fruit that culminates in a crisp, citrusy acidity, finishing with genuine definition and focus.

Deeply flavoured, this firmly structured, ripe and astringent shiraz reveals a briary, spicy bouquet whose deep scents of mulberries, dark cherries, blackberries and smoky vanilla/cedar oak are backed by nuances of dark olives. Brooding and deeply layered, with dark plum and berry flavours underpinned by drying, sinewy tannins, it is likely to flesh out with more fruit sweetness and roundness in the years ahead.