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Ron51  
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 | | 11-25-2005 08:45 PM |
| Would love tasting notes on the 2001 Octavius. Price $72.xx ???
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ChangeMe
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Posts: 261
| | 01-12-2006 06:53 PM |
| Well Ron,
I don't have a personal tasting note for you, but I did just buy a bottle myself........for $92.........so your price is good. Here is Parker's review and score:
Robert Parker
Wine Advocate, 10/15/2004
98 points
Drink 2005-2024 $85.00
Produced from yields of 1.2 tons of fruit per acre, the 2001 Shiraz Octavius spent 20 months in both French and American oak. A blockbuster, structured Shiraz with oodles of personality/soul, it offers a sumptuous bouquet as well as flavors of chocolate, white flowers, blackberry and cassis liqueur, prunes, figs, roasted meats, and burning embers. This full-bodied, hugely extracted, monster Shiraz has amazing balance and symmetry for its large-scaled style. It needs another 1-3 years of cellaring, and should last for 12-20 years, based on the longevity of some earlier examples. For instance, a gorgeous 1994 Octavius, drunk in 2004, had a decade of life remaining. A 1966 Shiraz/Cabernet The Signature tasted next to it, was still in spectacular shape. 98 points
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