Zonte's Footstep Shiraz/Viognier 2007
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The 2007 vintage is the fourth release of Zonte's Footstep single site Shiraz Viognier. Fittingly, Australia's beloved Shiraz is blended with a hatful of the aromatic white variety, Viognier, to add complexity to this wine. Rich and dark fruit flavors of blackberry and plum combine beautifully with subtle blonde tobacco and fine grained tannins to create a medium bodied wine with a velvety mouthfeel. Exotic tropical fruit and litchi nut notes are accentuated by the subtle cedar oak flavors. Drink now or hide in the cellar for 3 years.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2006 Shiraz-Viognier 6% has been an annual best buy in these pages. It was aged in 20% new oak. Dark ruby/purple-colored, it has an alluring, slightly kinky nose of wild blueberries, smoked sausage, and bacon. This is followed by a ripe, seamless, easy-to-understand wine with a lengthy, fruit-filled finish. Drink this hedonistic effort over the next three years.
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These are serious wines that restores one's faith in the purity of winemaking during an age of vinous homogeny.