Shadowfax Heathcote One Eye Shiraz 2004 ($65) screwcap: Good wine. Lots of line and length. Full, dark fruit flavours hang tight to a line of integrated acidity, with chalky, minerally, tongue-hugging tannins holding it all fast. There's a slight background of eucalyptus and sandalwood, but this is a wine keen to keep its cards fairly close to its chest - for now. Drink: 2009-2016. 91 points. Campbell Mattinson; The Wine Front
Firm, dry and unyielding, this closed and sinewy shiraz has a meaty, leathery bouquet whose rather sweet and jammy aromas of red and black berries are backed by earthy and peppery complexity. Its powerful, ferrous and leathery palate of deep, minty fruit finishes rather hard and drying, and should flesh out with time in the bottle. (Heathcote, $65 retail, approx., 17.3/90, drink 2012-2016) Jeremy Oliver
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