2003 SHIRAZ

Colour
Quite a deep, bright red with some development now starting to show up.
Nose
This has a lovely combination of lifted plummy fruit with some gently charry oak. Complex.
Palate
The palate is growing all the time and is rich and lingering. The berries are still there, tannins are quite firm, although now starting to round off, and the oak is sweet and pleasant.
Oak
This is a combination of new (58%) and once used (42%), American (51%) and European. 93% hogsheads.
Aging Potential
In keeping with many 2003 wines, this is on the elegant side of "full-bodied". It will continue to become softer and more complex with time and will well repay cellaring. Peak about 2009 - 2010.
Growing Season

Spring was mild and dry, following a very dry winter in 2002. Fruit set was good. Summer was mild and dry too, except for one short period of rain in February which caused a small amount of splitting. The fruit soon dried out and ripened quickly to just under 14 Bé. The shiraz was harvested on March 10 & 11.

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