From the NJ Offline at Tre Vigne on 6/28/03

1998 Cape d’Estaing Shiraz Kangaroo Island
94 points – This wine was wonderful. Everyone kept joking at my TN descriptors I was coming up with for this one. On the nose and in my mouth I got incredible senses of bacon fat, wax, licorice, steel as a sword being pulled from its scabbard and notes of pepper and cassis. Super finish as well. I got up out of my chair to see if MudPuppy could get me some of this (sadly no).

This was really my WOW WOTN at Tre Vigne.
Almost black in color, this was a massive wine, full of exotic aromas, and continued to improve in the glass. 93+.

i too completely loved this wine, and i don't even like shiraz

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and continued to improve in the glass

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Exactly. I kept going back to it. And, it kept getting better. Raised my rating on it. My brother has some in his cellar.

Yes you do anthony

I too thought this was the WOTN at the NJ dinner. It was a major fruit bomb, jammy without that cough syrup/grape jelly taste that so many of the big shirazs have. Great wine for drinkng alone. I too was disappointed I couldn't buy any. I gave it a 94 by the end of the night. It just kept getting better and better as the evening went on.

I was a little turned off by this wine at the beginning... I'm not sure why, perhaps the sweet dish I was eating at the time... but this was heavily oaked and the dill was a tad overpowering in the beginning. It did come around however and I ended up enjoying this wine a lot. Not my wine of the night though.. 92 points.

If anyone has a bottle to sell let me know! :-) I'd like to give this one another shot with one of my all night rating sessions.

tj,

i guess i do now

Rev, if you find a source, you let me know before you clean them all out.

anth--that's what i meant, dude.

gentlemen,

when you first commented on this wine, i checkedwine searcher & found it to be available in the greater ny/nj area as well as out here on the left. as i recall, there appeared to be little or nothing in the middle. if anyone needs it, they can send me a pm for my username & password for the "pro version". i didn't buy any because i am in a strange sort of limbo right now & most of us just can't buy everything.

funny. the best price is on winebid.

i noticed that as well.