Mount Langi Ghiran Shiraz 1999
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Voted ‘Best Red Wine' at The 2001 Exhibition of Victorian Winemakers, the 1999 Shiraz is a dark evocative purple with intense perfumes of cracked pepper, spice and brambly blackberry fruits. The palate is equally as intense and complex, with flavors of black fruits, pepper, spice and liquorice all seemlessly balanced by natural acidity and fine tannins.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 1999 Langi Shiraz is sealed under cork. While this is undoubtedly a good bottle, aromatic vestiges of its closure linger. You get tobacco and white spice, mulberry compote, layers of pomegranate molasses, leather, compost, old mahogany and leather-bound books. Elegant and midweight, with spice and line... mature now. Lovely. All future bottles will be entirely closure and storage-dependent. If all stars align, then I would suggest there is about a decade or less here. I'd love to be proven wrong! 14.5% alcohol, sealed under cork.
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Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Great Dividing Range in the Grampians region of Victoria, the Mount Langi Ghiran (Aboriginal for home of the yellow-tailed black cockatoo) vineyard is one of the most isolated and unique sites in Australian viticulture. The vineyard, with its towering granite cliffs and loamy red soils, encapsulates an extraordinary sense of place. Mount Langi Ghiran, or Langi, as it is fondly referred to, was originally planted in 1870 where is has become the home of one of Australia's finest cool climate wines, the Langi Shiraz.