Friday Wine Tasting… Shiraz Strong Arms!

October 18, 2013

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Wine Of the Week:

2006 R Wines Shiraz Strong Arms

$9.99

Tasting 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. Collect them all and Dan Philips will send you a free Bacon of the Month Club catalog. There are 12,000 cases of this remarkable value.” Pop & pour. Nice nose of sweet peppery berry fruit. Flavors of blackberry pie, mocha and vanilla on the finish.