A backward wine is the 1998 Shiraz Apricot Block. Made from relatively young vines (7 years in age) this 100% Shiraz shows an opaque garnet/purple color and a sweet nose of melted asphalt smoke blackberry and cassis. Extremely full-bodied with great intensity tremendous purity and impeccable overall harmony among its rather large-scale elements this dense super-extracted wine should be at its best between 2004-2020.