2004 Wine from Australia

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 98 points: Clarendon Hills' flagship Syrah is the 800-case cuvee of 2004 Syrah Astralis Vineyard. One of Australia's most prodigious offerings Astralis is a 20-30-year wine (some of the early vintages such as 1996 are still babies...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: 95+ The renowned 2004 Shiraz The Dead Arm fashioned from ancient head-pruned vines is stunning. An inky/purple color is accompanied by a glorious perfume of creosote/melted road tar blackberry and cassis liqueur pepper...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 93 points: From 6- to 34-year-old vines, the 2004 Hillside Shiraz spent 28 months in American oak, 50% new and 50% used. A blockbuster effort, it reveals deep, chocolaty, meaty notes intermixed with blackberries, cherries, and...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 98 points: The 2004 Descendant, an old oak-aged blend of 92% Shiraz and 8% Viognier from a 12-year old vineyard, offers up notes of blackberries, ink, sweet truffles, and acacia flowers. There are 1,000 cases of this full-bodied...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 99 points: The flagship 2004 Run Rig is 96.5% Shiraz and 3.5% Viognier with the Shiraz component aged for 30 months in a mixture of new and used French oak. Yields were a minuscule 14 hl/ha (about 1 ton per acre). Saturated opaque...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 99 points: The flagship 2004 Run Rig is 96.5% Shiraz and 3.5% Viognier with the Shiraz component aged for 30 months in a mixture of new and used French oak. Yields were a minuscule 14 hl/ha (about 1 ton per acre). Saturated opaque...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 97 points: Made from 100% Shiraz that spent 24 months in French oak (30% new), the exuberant, flamboyant 2004 The Factor offers up gorgeously pure blueberry and blackberry fruit intermixed with smoke, bacon fat, camphor, and...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 points: The 2004 The Struie is 100% Shiraz from 40-60-year old and 120-year old vineyards. Half of the fruit is from the Eden Valley and half from the Barossa and the wine spends 18 months in French oak (20% new). An exotic...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: The blockbuster 2004 Shiraz Springflat’s inky/purple color is followed by a wine that pushes concentration to the limit. Made from tiny yields of 1.5 to 1.8 tons of fruit per acre aged in 50% new and 50% 1 and 2 year...

Wine Enthusiast, 96 points: One of the more obviously ageworthy offerings from Clarendon Hills, the 2004 Hickinbotham Syrah boasts a wonderfully perfumed bouquet of flowers, minerals and spice. Then it backs up those captivating aromatics with rich...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 98 points: The 2004 Descendant an old oak-aged blend of 92% Shiraz and 8% Viognier from a 12-year old vineyard offers up notes of blackberries ink sweet truffles and acacia flowers. There are 1000 cases of this full-bodied intense...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 99 points: The flagship 2004 Run Rig is 96.5% Shiraz and 3.5% Viognier with the Shiraz component aged for 30 months in a mixture of new and used French oak. Yields were a minuscule 14 hl/ha (about 1 ton per acre). Saturated opaque...