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Jim Barry, The Armagh Shiraz 2010
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Reviewed by: Lisa Perrotti-Brown
Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2010 The Armagh Shiraz flaunts a gorgeous aromatic red and black fruit core intermingled with clove, chocolate box, and eucalyptus aromas that are still very primary. Bottled under screw cap, it has a really fine palate that is very elegant yet powerful. With vibrant acid, firm and very fine tannins, the flavors are rich and layered with spices coming through on the long finish. Drink it from 2015 to 2030+. Importer: Negociants USA, Napa, CA; tel. (707) 259-0993
Reviewed by: Lisa Perrotti-Brown
Deep garnet with a touch of purple, the 2010 Shiraz The Armagh offers a beautiful black fruit core, yielding notes of crushed blackberries and blueberries, with an undercurrent of coffee and spice box, plus touches of earth and raw meat. Full-bodied and built like a brick house, it has concentrated, very youthful fruit that reveals many layers in the long, long finish.
Reviewed by: Erin Larkin
The 2010 Shiraz The Armagh was bottled 50% under stelvin and 50% under cork. This bottle is Stelvin. It is tight, amazing and fresh! It has all the pastrami and peppercorn, but it has light and freshness too. This is impossibly fresh and delicious. What a vineyard. There is a stylistic shift here, moving from barriques to hogsheads, more French oak. It has 14.6% alcohol and was matured for 14 months in 67% French and 33% American 330-liter hogsheads, 70% new oak and 30% one year old. So good. This is alive.
Reviewed by: Josh Raynolds
Glass-staining ruby. Complex, deeply perfumed aromas of ripe black and blue fruits, incense, vanilla, peppery spices and pungent flowers. Supple and broad on the palate, offering impressively concentrated, alluringly sweet blueberry, cherry-vanilla and floral pastille flavors that flesh out and become spicier with air. Shows superb energy and seamless texture on a strikingly long, sweet finish framed by velvety, fine-grained tannins.
About the Producer
A top winery that has also received praise from Robert Parker and James Halliday Jim Barry is one of the few wineries in Australia to have received a five-star rating from renowned Australian wine critic James Halliday. The winery is located in the Clare Valley, with approximately 247 hectares of land and a few vineyards in the Coonawarra region, which produces Australia's finest Cabernet. Jim Barry's top wine, The Armagh, has been publicly praised by Robert Parker as one of Australia's iconic wines and has been ranked by Langton's, Australia's leading wine auction house, as one of the best value Australian wines alongside flagship wines from Penfolds, Henschke and other leading Australian wineries. The Armagh range has been ranked by Langton's as one of the best value Australian wines.
