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2002 Jim Barry Shiraz The Armagh Syrah
Syrah: 750ml
$169.99
points awarded:
JH 96 ST 94 WA 9896 points,
James Halliday, October 2005
Dense purple-red; absolutely stuffed with blackberry, prune, dark chocolate and plum fruit intermingling with mocha/vanilla oak; gets away with the preposterous alcohol; very long finish.
98 points,
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, December 2010
While we're waiting for the next release of The Amargh, Peter Barry presented me with a couple of older vintages for consumers to see how they're developing. The 2002 The Amargh Shiraz was sampled from a bottle under cork and from a bottle under screwcap. Though I'm a proponent for neither closure, the screwcap bottle was fresher, fruitier and demonstrated a slightly superior texture of tighter, finer grained tannins. However my note and score are for the bottle under cork, which is probably the bottle in most cellars. Very deep garnet-black in color, it displays a lovely choco-mint and mincemeat nose with hints of smoky bacon, coffee, tobacco and cumin seed. The rich, full-bodied flesh is well supported by very crisp acid and a medium-high level of very silky tannins. The finish is very long lending lingering notes of mint, coffee and baking spices. It's drinking beautifully now and should continue to cellar until 2020+.
94 points,
Stephen Tanzer's IWC, September 2005
Inky dark ruby. Powerful, pungent scents of creme de mure, boysenberry syrup, dark chocolate, sweet mocha and violet face powder. Thick and mouthfilling, with dense, concentrated flavors of dark berry, Cuban coffee (including the flaming orange peel) and molten chocolate. The tannins on the finish are firm but buffered beautifully by the ripe fruit. This chewy, ultrasweet, superconcentrated shiraz was one of the densest, most powerful wines of my recent tastings.
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