Magpie Estate, Blacksock Size:12x750ml This is austere and compact

This is austere and compact

spicy midweight with uncanny retention of spicy red cherry and redcurrant fruit

Drink it over the coming decade

The natural coolness of the site is in evidence as the nose is ripe but airy and elegant with its spicy and fresh essence of various red berry scents

with youthful tannins gracing the finish

Magpie Estate, Blacksock Size:12x750ml This is austere and compactThe prodigious 1998 Shiraz Mourvedre Black Sock (80% Shiraz and 20% Mourvedre from 60 100 year old vines) is a blockbuster. Aged for a whopping 30 months in American wood, this opaque purple colored wine offers an almost essence of blackberry and cherry fruit intermixed with earth, leather, charcoal, and new wood. The wine is full bodied, spectacularly concentrated, with multiple levels to its mid palate, and a whoppingly powerful, rich finish. I was