Giaconda

Warner Shiraz 2002

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  Vintage 2004
  96 points www.winefront.com.au

The 2002 Giaconda shiraz looks increasingly like a brilliant shiraz, and as a young wine this looks even better. If you have a Giaconda way of thinking, and drinking, then you are in for a treat here. The flavours are along the expected lines – graphite, black cherries, cedar and undergrowth, all of it clean but all of it interesting. There’s a smoky barrel-ferment character too, and quite a deal of cedary oak, but the thing that makes me rave is the tannin, which has a sense of exclusivity to it: this is a special, complex, compelling wine.

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  Vintage 2004
  94 points www.winecompanion.com.au

Its deep ruby/purple color is followed by a stunning nose of camphor, lead pencil shavings, blackberry liqueur, and incense. Fabulously concentrated and rich as well as elegant, pure, and multi-layered, this stunning Victoria Shiraz should drink well for a decade or more.