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Run Rig, Torbreck 1997

RegionAustralia
Subregion Australia > South Australia > Barossa Valley
ColourRed
TypeStill
Grape VarietySyrah

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Tasting Notes

The 1997 Run Rig is the most mature of this group. More evolved than the 1996 or the potentially perfect 1998, the 1997 displays beautiful floral, blackberry, charcoal, and incense characteristics, a full-bodied opulence, a seamless, voluptuous mouthfeel, and hints of caramelized black fruits and herbs. It is a beauty of complexity, elegance, and substance. Drink it over the next 5-10 years. Torbreck's flagship wine, the Run Rig, is made from 40- to 120-year-old Shiraz vines with some co-fermented Viognier (usually around 3%), tips the scales between 14-15% alcohol, and is aged 30 months in French oak. In contrast to the way they taste upon release, neither the 1998 or 1997 Run Rig revealed any oak.

95
Robert Parker, Wine Advocate (183), June 2009
98
Robert Parker, Wine Advocate (127), February 2000
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