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1999 Clarendon Hills Astralis (Shiraz) (92+) Showing better than when I tasted it for the Wine Advocate, the wine seems to open a bit, but is still backward and, for a Clarendon Hills wine, showing slightly more new oak than other vintages. A saturated purple colour offers up concentrated blackberry fruit intermixed with liquorice and barbecue spice. The wine is large-scaled, very intense, with a multi-dimensional, layered personality. This wine should be at its best in about 7-8 years. Anticipated maturity: 2008-2025 by Robert M. Parker, Jr. A real step in the evolution of this label, the 1999 Astralis is a deeply flavoured, wild, briary and luxuriant red wine of substantial power and structure. Underneath its musky chookshed aromas lie genuinely ripe but not over-cooked concentrated red fruit flavours which finish firm, fine and earthy. Already a terrific accompaniment to food, it will certainly cellar well. (19.0, Drink 2011-2019, $200 retail, approx.) Jeremy Oliver, OnWine. 01/10/2001 . As the winery has supplied us Astralis on a 1:4 ratio of purchase of other Clarendon Hills products, so too must we offer Astralis at this ratio
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