Rockford Basket Press Shiraz 2018 (1500ml)

Rockford Basket Press Shiraz 2018 (1500ml)"Rockford can only be described as an icon, no matter how overused that word may be." James Halliday Rockford Basket Press Shiraz, like Penfolds Grange, is one of Australias most collected and most cherished red wines. Fruit is sourced from some of the best old Barossa vineyards with vine age from 60 to 130 years. "This 2018 seems like something of a return to form for Rockford BP, at least for my tastes, and maybe a little more like the wines from

creates a unique mesoclimate that generates very distinctive fruit and wine

"A medium to full-bodied red wine that offers a rich and complex aroma of dark fruit

In a vintage which was cool to mild in between heat spells the medium-bodied palate reveals bright red fruits with a savoury rub of oak spice

while the palate is voluptuously full and rich

from Clare and McLaren Vale ($22)

Vincent Chaperon replied: "I’ve been part of the team for many years

brooding somewhat

we have two family-owned vineyards: our Portsea block

but their gaze became fixed on table wine

transparent wine

Beautifully concentrated wine with lovely lemon curd

Loredana has a post-graduate degree in viticulture and Nicola a PhD in vine disease and ampelography