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Strong Arms Shiraz 2006


Syrah/Shiraz

from South Australia, Australia

red wine
screw cap wine
The Wine Advocate 91 point ratingThe Wine Advocate 91 point rating
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Item No. 94622
winemaker's notes:

"The 2006 Shiraz is composed of 46% McLaren Vale, 44% Riverland, and 10% Barossa Valley fruit. It was aged in seasoned French and American oak for 12 months. Opaque purple-colored, it has a nose of cedar, spice box, and blueberry. Fruit-driven, supple-textured, rich, and easygoing, the wine has remarkable class for its giveaway price. It actually has 2-3 years of aging potential but no one that I know is going to defer their gratification. Strong Arms has been bottled with 6 different but similarly themed labels."
- Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

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6 out of 7 people would buy this wine again

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Tasting Tags:
value, spicy,, rich,, powerful,, balanced,

Pair With:
the, made, more, Ribs..Sauce, and, BBQ, Or, another, as, but, a, meat, wine, Sauce., use., sauce, such, lamb, reduction, for, from
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Paul Weiss - New York, NY (read all my reviews)
  Outstanding Value - 9/3/2008
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
I would buy this wine again

I am continually impressed by many of the value-priced Shiraz and Shiraz blends, and this is a great example. Opens with fruit, spicy in the mid-palate, with a surprisingly long finish and manageable tannins...a value at twice the price. I am very curious to see how it develops in a couple of years, and will save 3 or 4 bottles.


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e. jake jacobo - Winter Park, FL (read all my reviews)
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
I would buy this wine again

Excellent Shiraz for the price, I love the screw cap system especially for traveling and hotels.


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Keith Miller - Englewood, CO (read all my reviews)
  Powerful - 8/16/2008
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
I would buy this wine again

Power needs Power... Pair with powerful foods.

Tasting Tags
value   balanced,   spicy,   rich,   powerful,  

Food Pairing Tags
sauce   reduction   a   but   lamb   as   such   meat   another   Or   Sauce.   more   and   Ribs..Sauce   BBQ   use.   for   wine   the   from   made  


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  1. Strong Arms Shiraz 2006
  2. Gascon Malbec 2007
  3. Veramonte Chardonnay Reserva 2006


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