Wine Tasting- Cape d’ Estaing

Wine: Cape d’Estaing

Variety: Shiraz

Region: Kangaroo Island

Country: Australia

Variety: 2003

Price: $40.00

Critic Review: This is a gorgeous, fully mature Oz shiraz that is both balanced and very interesting. Still very dark, but showing some bricking garnet on the rim. Nose is intense, and full of secondary notes - fig, tobacco, black olive, with just a tinge of sweet plum or currant fruit. Palate is full bodied, ripe and mouth-filling, dry with lots of sweet black cherry and blackberry fruit. Notes of fig and tobacco on the long finish as well. This is delicious and drinking very well.

My Review:

When I smelled this wine, I could tell that it was probably aged in oak barrels. This oak smell and flavor took over the wine for me. Again, not a big fan of reds, so not my favorite. I did not eat while drinking this wine.