Magpie Estate, Blacksock Size:12x750ml The tannins are quite round

The tannins are quite round and polished

layered and exceptionally beautiful

Drink it over the coming decade

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

floral and lemon peel

Magpie Estate, Blacksock Size:12x750ml The tannins are quite roundThe 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