incense and smoky minerals pick up a spicy nuance as the wine opens up

with thrilling notes of black cherry

60% of which is young vines and the remainder is 40+ year old vines)

You can drink now with 1-2 hours of air

but it is nothing short of superb

Rusden, Black Guts Shiraz other_regions_italy incense and smoky minerals pickCoffee, dark chocolate, earth and mushroom. This has aged really well, with long, musty complexity on the palate. The fruit is dried up, but has a preserved, porty sort of power to it. This is a great vindication of how well those 'Parkerised' styles can age, in fact. Long, balanced, authentic. (RH)