Jacob's Creek Shiraz Reserve 2008

A perpetual Best Buy, Wine Enthusiast Magazine said "The Reserve wines from Jacob’s Creek continue to offer excellent value". This wine from the outstanding 2008 vintage is an engagingly fragrant wine, aged up to 20 months in French and American oak barrels. After aging, only the best lots make it into the final blend. The tannins are soft and supple and the flavors are a complex intermingling of blackberry, plum, cedar, coffee and spice.

Region: BarossaColour:A dense crimson, hinting at the intensity to follow on nose and palateBouquet:Rich fruitcake and plum aromas with a hint of spice and sweet vanillinoak.Palate:Lifted notes of rich fruitcake and ripe plums, layered subtly with black pepper; stylish oak characters of ground cinnamon and sweet vanillin provide a supporting role.Cellaring Potential:Excellent drinking now and will continue to improve over the next five to ten years.Serving suggestion:An ideal accompaniment to braised lamb shanks, eye-fillet of beef or hard cheeses. - WineryAlcohol:13.5% alcohol by volume

Bright and refreshing, exhibiting a savory edge to the berry flavors. Drink now.

Ripe blackberry fruit and spicy black pepper notes, with subtle background chocolate-mocha-oak nuances. The palate has sweet brambly fruit encased in smooth and supportive soft tannins. The wine is a medium-bodied style showing persistence of fruit, and harmonized with the supple finish that defines the Jacob's Creek style.

On the lighter side, but nicely fleshed out with strawberry and spice flavors, which echo on the grainy finish. Drink now through 2003.

Sturdy and appealing for its bright plum and black cherry character, hinting at mineral notes on the finish. Drink now.

A fruit-driven wine. Loads of black cherry, violet, even maple notes on the nose. Rich, yet lively and multifaceted, with bright sweet fruit, herbal notes and good acidity to match. Not deep, but an easy drinker the satisfies.