Wine of the week | Retailer of the month | Tasting with Oz 2006 Shiraz Reserve, The Boulders, California, 14% ABV Co-op, £5.49 I wish we got more affordable tasty Californian wine like this in the UK. So much stuff in this price area is so flat and lifeless. But The Boulders delivers – and then some. It’s full, it’s ripe, it’s rich – hell, it’s unctuous – but it’s not sweet and it’s not sugared up. It’s rich with clotted cream, it’s rich with black plums and prunes and dates, but it’s also chilled down by a stony dryness and the texture is soft like cold beeswax, not grape stew. The Co-operative Group Head office: New Century House, Manchester, M60 4ES Freephone 0800 068 6727 for stock details; Approx. 3,000 licensed stores e-mail: customer_relations@co-op.co.uk website: www.co-operative.co.uk hours Variable cards Variable Taken from the new Oz Clarke 250 Best Wines Wine Buying Guide 2008 Printable Tasting Sheet View the Wine of the Week Archive Check for stockists around the world at www.wine-searcher.com Continued...

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