Best's Great Western Thomson Family Shiraz 1996 (1500ml)

Best's Great Western Thomson Family Shiraz 1996 (1500ml)Best's Thompson Family Shiraz is one of the truly great wines of the world. The wine is made predominantly from fruit off fifteen rows of pre phylloxera vines planted by Henry Best in 1868. These rows that comprise the Thomson Family block are the oldest Shiraz vines in the historic Concongella Vineyard. Today the shiraz clone is referred to by the CSIRO as the Concongella clone or the Best's Old Block clone and it is the mother clone of all

lengthens and lengthens each time it is retasted

with blueberry and blackberry notes and a generous infusion of savoury oak

The vineyards are 1 km apart and are both situated on elevated hillsides at an altitude of 320 metres

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Price is beyond reasonable

with lovely texture and mouth-feel

The schubert theorem

from estate plantings in '99 and '03

with red ironstone colouring the surface

it will take some time to unravel and evolve

She nursed the House back to a profitable enterprise through the Great Depression and World War II

seamless and tightly integrated