WA  90 

Rated: 90 pts - The Wine Advocate

Wine Color: Red
Vintage: 2008
Varietal: Shiraz
Style: Still
Size: 750ml
Origin: Oceania > Australia > South Australia > Barossa Valley

Food Pairing: Spicy Food, Turkey
Taste: Rich, Medium Bodied

The Wine Advocate 90 pts - Jay Miller
The 2008 Shotfire Shiraz was aged for 14-16 months in 40% new French and American oak hogsheads. Purple-colored, it offers up a nose of toasty oak, Asian spices, incense, blueberry, and blackberry. On the palate it has excellent flavors in a plush, nearly opulent style. The wine is balanced, rich, fleshy, and ripe. Drink this full-flavored effort over the next 6-8 years.

Description:
Deep red colour. Very lifted and intense nose of blackberry fruit, sweet spice and dark chocolate. The palate is very rich and flavoursome with blackberry and plum fruit. In addition to the primary fruit characters there is plenty of complexity in this wine with spice, earthy notes and graphite also evident. There is heaps of mouthfilling flavour complemented by chalky tannins. There is great length of fruit as well.

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