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2008 Tait Wines Shiraz Basket Pressed Barossa Valley
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2008 Tait Wines Shiraz Basket Pressed Barossa Valley

Producer: Tait Wines
Style: Red Wine
Grape Type: Syrah/Shiraz
Origin: Australia
Region: Barossa Valley

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92 Points | International Wine Cellar , July/August 2012

(16.3% alcohol):  Glass-staining ruby.  Heady, exotically perfumed bouquet of dark fruit liqueur, incense and candied flowers, with notes of vanilla, clove and cocoa emerging with air.  Lush and deeply pitched but shockingly energetic, offering intense blackberry and cherry-vanilla flavors and strong spicy lift.  Closes on a sappy note, with excellent clarity and floral-dominated persistence.  Nothing at all shy about this wine, but nothing vulgar, either.

92 Points | Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate

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Syrah

While the grape is currently grown throughout the world, the most elegant Syrahs still come from the Northern Rhone valley, particularly the appellations of Côte Rôtie, Cornas, and Hermitage. Here, steep, terraced vineyards help produce full-bodied, intense, tannic wines loaded with white pepper and red fruit. In the vineyard, Syrah is largely cooperative- vines are productive, but not overly vigorous. Skins are thick, helping the grape...
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