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O'Leary Walker The Claire Reserve Shiraz 2006
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The Claire again is very powerful and concentrated in colour and structure. The bouquet is powerful blackberry spice with hints of chocolate and cedar. The palate is even powerful and long with fine grain tannin and balanced acid.
The Claire is only produced in outstanding Vintages. Texture,
concentration of character and structure are features of this wine and the vineyard is the key. Made from 116 year old Shiraz from the Polish Valley 2006 was a very good Vintage as many of these vintage wines
have found their way to market.
It's just about perfect. It's a seriously substantial red wine and yet it manages a fine impression of elegance. It's also, as a young wine, dramatically complex. Let's not get too carried away, but if you look you'll find flavours of chicory, toast, blood plums, coffee beans, red earth and malt. Some of those flavours are, of course, derived from the French oak barrels the wine was matured in (for two years). It's a brilliantly unified wine. They should call it the United Flavours of Claire. 96 Points." - Campbell Mattinson & Gary Walsh, The Big Red Wine Book 2010/2011, 1 June 2010.
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| Don't Pay: $85
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WBW Rating: 95/100
Closure: Cork
Region: Clare Valley SA |
Winemaker: David O'Leary and Nick Walker
Drink now until: 2020
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