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St Henri Shiraz 2003

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  Vintage 2003
  95 points www.winecompanion.com.au

Intense, savoury black fruits with spicy notes on the bouquet; fine tannins are like built-in cupboards on the palate, evenly distributing themselves through its length.

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  Vintage 2003
  91 points The Wine Front

Revealing swathes of exotic black pepper spice, and subtlety of tannin structure, giving the wine form and class. It is a remarkably spicy, almost meaty wine for a St Henri. This, like so many St Henris before it, is a deceptively good wine. It s more warm-year Rhonish than usual, but within allowable St Henri limits. Medium term, it should age well. It s a 5-8 year wine though, rather than a 10-20 year wine.