Nicely complex on the nose, delivering scents of ripe plums, roasted meat, wood smoke and peppery herbs. Only medium in weight, it offers authoritative flavors of plum, rhubarb and vanilla followed by a long, smoke-tinged finish. Too bad there are only 70 cases of this distinctive, flavorful and fairly priced Shiraz for the U.S. ——J.C.(10/1/2009)—— 89