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2009
Watershed Shiraz
(750ml)
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Producer: |
Watershed Wines
watershedwines.com.au
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| Appellation: |
Margaret River - Western Australia - Australia
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| Type: |
red
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| Varietal: |
Shiraz
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| Maturity: |
Drink |
| Rating: |
n/a |
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rated
(2004 vintage, 750ml bottle)
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November 7, 2007
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David Lole
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90 points
"The 2004 Watershed Shiraz hails from Margaret River in Western
Australia and weighs in at a hefty 14.5% A/V. My first hit-out with this
small winery, this wine possesses a healthy dark ruby colour with purple
hues, a lovely open bouquet filled with dark plums, blackberries, cherries,
chocolate, cinnamon and savoury oak. The medium-full palate harbours a
wealth of fruit, filling the mouth with mainly dark plums and berries with an
underlying savoury streak from the fine-grained French and American oak
with hints of the spices and chocolate found in the nose. Expectedly,
there’s, seemingly, relatively low acidity but at no time did I detect any
sense of blowsiness or lack of focus. The tannin regime meshes extremely
well with the fruit and persists through to a fine, impressive finish of some
considerable duration and, it must be added, without any sense of heat from
the high alcohol level. I thoroughly enjoyed this extremely well balanced,
nicely honed wine for the meagre twenty bucks I paid and would
recommend a further five years of cellaring for it to be at its best."
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