Red Wines	Syrah/Shiraz	Barossa Valley	Australia

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Date Printed: 7/25/2008

Torbreck Descendant Shiraz 2005

(search item no. 92591)
collectible wine
The Wine Advocate rating: 97 points
Wine Enthusiast rating: 95 points
PRICE ON 7/25/2008: $99.99

ratings pedigree (past vintages):
2004 The Wine Advocate rating: 98 points

Winemaker's Notes:

"The 2005 Descendant is composed of 92% Shiraz and 8% Viognier which are co-fermented. The fruit is sourced from a relatively young vineyard in Marananga planted with 11-year-old cuttings from the Run Rig vineyards and aged for 18 months in 2.5-year-old French barrels previously used for Run Rig. Opaque purple, with glass-coating glycerin, it offers up a complex array of lavender, violets, blueberry, blackberry, and fresh road tar. Full-bodied, on the palate the wine has great concentration with a noticeable uplift from the Viognier, gobs of spicy black fruits, opulence, and well-concealed tannins which will carry this wine for 10-15 years of further evolution. Drink it through 2030."
-Wine Advocate

My Notes:

Additional wines from Torbreck:

2003 The Factor Shiraz (search item no. 91716)
2004 RunRig (search item no. 92720)
2005 The Factor Shiraz (search item no. 94394)
2005 The Steading (search item no. 94014)
2005 The Struie Barossa Valley (search item no. 91172)
2006 Woodcutters Shiraz (search item no. 91126)

About Torbreck:

Torbreck, founded in 1994 by David Powell, is situated at Marananga on the western ridge of the Barossa. Since that time he has produced some of the world?s finest 'Rhone varietal' wines, exclusively from Barossa fruit; this has been acknowledged by the wine press in Europe, America and Australia. The overwhelming majority of his vines are dry-grown, nearly all are 80 - 125 years old and are tended and harvested by hand.

The wines have an extraordinary combination of power, intesity, complexity and great finesse, and bearing in mind the age of the vines and the laughably low yields, no Torbreck wine could ever be accused of being heavy, cloying or over-extracted.