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Wine of the week | Retailer of the month | Tasting with Oz
2004 Shiraz, Turkey Flat, Barossa Valley, South Australia, This is the kind of Shiraz that I would frequently describe as just too much of a good thing. But then I see on the label that these vines were planted in 1847. Surely that makes them the oldest Shiraz vines in the world. Might they be the oldest wine vines of any sort in the world? Age must be revered and respected. Age may make whatever style of wine it will. And this is a rich, dense, earthy stew of a hundred and sixty summers, smelling as rustic yet exciting as a fancied stallion sweating before a race, tasting of damsons and plums mixed with red cherries and black chocolate, seasoned with pepper and thyme and a fistful of ancient soil crumbled into the cauldron and simmered until nightfall under the blazing Australian sky.
Taken from the new Oz Clarke 250 Best Wines Wine Buying Guide 2008
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