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1996 Fox Creek Shiraz Reserve Syrah

Syrah: 750ml

$71.00

about this wine:

"The fruit for the 2002 Reserve Shiraz was primarily sourced from the 'Willows Block' at Fox Creek and harvested between 14.2° and 14.8° Baumé. Fermentation on skins was for 8 days with a proportion of the wine (40%) completing fermentation in new American (70%) and French (30%) oak. The wine was matured for 15 months in new and 1 year old American and French oak. During this time the wine was racked 3 times...great depth of colour, aroma and flavour typical of the best wines of the McLaren Vale region. The wine has an extraordinary range of flavours including blackberry, blackcurrant, licorice and dark chocolate. There is a long finish."

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points awarded:
WA 95

95 points,

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, January 1998

As my point score suggests, I was very impressed with this wine. Only the third vintage of this wine, it is made from 14-year old vines that average 3 tons of fruit per acre. I am pleased to report that 2,000 cases were produced. Typical of many of the great red wines represented by Dan Phillips, it boasts an opaque purple color, followed by spectacular aromatics (cassis, pepper, blackberry jam, and tar), and viscous, chewy-textured, full-bodied, highly-endowed flavors that coat the palate with glycerin, extract, and alcohol (14.5%). This superb, extremely concentrated, blockbuster Shiraz should drink well for 15-20 years. According to Dan Phillips, this is one of Australia's hottest new wineries, winning plaudits for their super-intense, blockbuster-styled Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon. The vineyards are planted in distinctive black clay soils, and the yields are limited to three tons of fruit per acre. Imported by Dan Phillips' company - The Grateful Palate, 601 Del Norte Blvd., Unit G, Oxnard, CA 93030; tel. (888) 472-5283, fax (805) 278-9085. Readers will also immensely enjoy his well-written catalogue which bears the same name - The Grateful Palate.


95 points,

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, January 1998

As my point score suggests, I was very impressed with this wine. Only the third vintage of this wine, it is made from 14-year old vines that average 3 tons of fruit per acre. I am pleased to report that 2,000 cases were produced. Typical of many of the great red wines represented by Dan Phillips, it boasts an opaque purple color, followed by spectacular aromatics (cassis, pepper, blackberry jam, and tar), and viscous, chewy-textured, full-bodied, highly-endowed flavors that coat the palate with glycerin, extract, and alcohol (14.5%). This superb, extremely concentrated, blockbuster Shiraz should drink well for 15-20 years. According to Dan Phillips, this is one of Australia's hottest new wineries, winning plaudits for their super-intense, blockbuster-styled Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon. The vineyards are planted in distinctive black clay soils, and the yields are limited to three tons of fruit per acre. Imported by Dan Phillips' company - The Grateful Palate, 601 Del Norte Blvd., Unit G, Oxnard, CA 93030; tel. (888) 472-5283, fax (805) 278-9085. Readers will also immensely enjoy his well-written catalogue which bears the same name - The Grateful Palate.


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