The Standish Wine Company

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The Standish Wine Company
The Standish Shiraz 2003 (6 bts)
The Relic Shiraz/Viognier 2004 (6 bts)
Barossa Valley
The Standish: "The 2003 Shiraz (100% Shiraz from a 90-year-old Vine Vale vineyard) was cropped at .5 tons of fruit per acre, and was aged 32 months in old French oak. It is a magnificent effort boasting tremendous ripeness as well as abundant blueberry and creme de cassis notes intermixed with flowers, graphite, and crushed rocks. With amazing concentration, purity, and richness, but no heaviness (the alcohol is only 14.5%),and a finish that lasts well past a minute, it is accessible now, but should age effortlessly for two decades or more." R. Parker, 99 pts. 10/06
The Relic: "More exotic and flamboyant than the Shiraz, but equally profound is the 2004 Shiraz/Viognier The Relic (93% and 7% respectively, cropped at .5 tons of fruit per acre, and aged 20 months in old French oak). An inky/purple-colored, powerful, full-bodied, rich red, it possesses a huge, sweet nose of blue and black fruits, flowers, and subtle oak, a blockbuster mid-section, and an amazingly long finish. More approachable than the 2003 Shiraz, it can be drunk now or cellared for 15 or more years." R. Parker, 99 pts. 10/06
12 bottles
Estimate $850-1,200

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