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Boarding Pass First Class Shiraz(2005)
The wine is rich ruby red in color. Sweet blueberry fruit abounds in the nose, complexed by tobacco, coffee & chocolate. In the mouth, there are plums & fruitcake with lavish toasty oak and a voluptuous creamy structure.
- HondaJohn
- Oakland, CA
- May 2008
- Great wine ... long length to it. Smoother and more structure than the Boarding Pass. Love it.
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Source:
Wine.com
- The Wine Advocate rating: 94
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September 2008
- The 2005 Shiraz First Class was barrel-fermented and aged for 18 months in new and 1 year French and American oak. More complex aromatically, it has a lovely bouquet of toast, smoke, cedar, lavender, blueberry, and blackberry. Opulent, velvety, and seamless, it has great depth, spicy blue and black fruit flavors with hints of licorice and chocolate, and a very long finish. Drink it over the next 10 years. The Boarding Pass label is just that, a dead ringer for an airplane boarding pass. According to Dan Philips, it is like going on a trip to Australia without leaving home while the First Class is a read more...
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Source:
Wine.com
- The 2005 Shiraz First Class was barrel-fermented and aged for 18 months in new and 1 year French and American oak. More complex aromatically, it has a lovely bouquet of toast, smoke, cedar, lavender, blueberry, and blackberry. Opulent, velvety, and seamless, it has great depth, spicy blue and black fruit flavors with hints of licorice and chocolate, and a very long finish. Drink it over the next 10 years. The Boarding Pass label is just that, a dead ringer for an airplane boarding pass. According to Dan Philips, it is like going on a trip to Australia without leaving home while the First Class is a read more...
- The Wine Advocate
- 94/100
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November 2007
