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Under the Liquor Control Reform Act 1998 it's an offence:
- to supply alcohol to a person under the age of 18 years )
Penalty exceeds $6,000)
- for a person under the age of 18 years to purchase or
receive liquor. (Penalty exceeds $500)
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Rare & Fine Wine > Rockford ’Basket Press’ Barossa Valley Shiraz 2005 - SOLD OUT..AWAITING NEW VINTAGE
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TASTING NOTES
The 2005 - Very dark in colour with aromas of dark fruit, plum pudding, earth, dark chocolate and a little rosy vanilla oak. A deep brooding wine. On the palate dark fruit and some brighter raspberry flavours with leather, dark chocolate, earth and tasteful vanilla oak in support. Still quite tight and backwards with a lovely spread of fine tannin and fresh balanced acidity. Feels good and smooth..and long. An excellent basket press and almost certainly a sleeper. 95+ Points, Gary Walsh, Winorama NOV 2007
2004 Vintage - We have a beautiful wine on our hands here. It is the best Basket Press Shiraz since 1999. I'm one of those people who loves the pants off Rockford in the Barossa Valley, but who also feels as if the standard hasn't quite been what it once was over the past four or five years. It's been good, but not the superstar we all know it to be - it hasn't dropped, it's just taken a bit of a buffering, to my taste. The 2004 takes that bad attitude of mine and puts a cork in it. It's got a beautiful nose, a beautiful palate, a beautiful frame of tannin, and succulent, smoochy length. I could kiss this darling all night long, and God how I wish that I could - every night. Barossa shiraz - you know the flavours. Low oak, black fruit, coal and earth. Once you finish each mouthful, it still feels like it's got a firm, mesmerising grip on you. One sip, and there really is no escape. Drink: 2006-2018. 96 points.
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