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RockfordBasket Press Shiraz 1998
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Rockford. A winery that can simply be defined as being an icon. "Rocky" O'Callaghan has built a legacy at Rockford that includes the sublime, Rockford Basket Press Shiraz. Sitting comfortably in the 'Exceptional' category in the Langton's Classification of Australian Wine, the 1998 Basket Press is a brilliant example from the heralded 1998 vintage. Big, fat and juicy still after over a decade in bottle, the wine is one to be opened and enjoyed for all its youthful exuberance.
Rockford. A winery that can simply be defined as being an icon. "Rocky" O'Callaghan has built a legacy at Rockford that includes the sublime, Rockford Basket Press Shiraz. Sitting comfortably in the 'Exceptional' category in the Langton's Classification of Australian Wine, the 1998 Basket Press is a brilliant example from the heralded 1998 vintage. Big, fat and juicy still after over a decade in bottle, the wine is one to be opened and enjoyed for all its youthful exuberance.
Full bodied red wines have a noticeably textural mouthfeel with bold, complex flavours. Often deeply coloured.
Dry wines have no trace of sweetness at all.
- TypeShiraz
- Size750mL
- RegionBarossa Valley
- Current Vintage1998
- Standard Drinks8.3
- Alcohol Volume14.0%
- Langtons ClassifiedExceptional
- CountryAustralia
- StateSouth Australia
- Brand NameRockford
- Wine MakerRobert O'Callaghan
- ClosureCork
- Wine SweetnessDry
- Wine BodyFull Bodied
- More about Campbell Mattinson
Campbell Mattinson
Award winning Australian wine reviewer for Wine Companion and winefront.com.au
Vintage 1998
94 points www.winefront.com.au
Wide, fat and syrupy, but then that's the 1998 vintage. It drinks like an airport novel, all guts and kisses, like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. Syrupy blackberry. A soft mesh of oak. Length. Balance. Fruit integrity. A tarry earthiness that is pure Barossa. It is a very good wine, a mouth-romp. It is a wine to be lavished and enjoyed. But it is not the classic piece of contemplation it might have seemed on release.
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