20 October 2003

2001 Shiraz, Tim Adams, Clare Valley, South Australia
£8.99, Tesco

This is the Adams 'basic' Shiraz, a term that sounds absurd when you taste how fine the wine is, with a texture like Viennese black chocolate melting in your palm on a hot summer's night, like double cream flowing thick and unwilling from a jug, like pepper, black cherries and fat red plums all laughing at each other's flavours, and as the morning sun carries rosehip on the breeze, the last stifling scents of midnight eucalyptus still linger in the air. £8.99 and it's all yours.

Taken from the all-new Oz Clarke's Wine Buying Guide 2004

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