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ROCKFORD Basket Press Shiraz, Barossa Valley 1999 Bottle
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ROCKFORD Basket Press Shiraz, Barossa Valley 1999 Bottle
About this wine
ROCKFORD Basket Press Shiraz, Barossa Valley
Robert O'Callaghan's Rockford Basket Press Shiraz is one of the Barossa Valley's most important wines. It entered Langton's Classification of Australian Wine in 2000 and is one of 21 wines in the 1st Classified tier today.
It is sold almost exclusively to Rockford's own mailing list customers and is rarely made available to the retail market. Rockford’s squat, high–shouldered brown bottle - reminiscent of 1940s red wine packaging - is instantly recognisable.
Basket Press manages to combine the concentration and power of the traditional Barossa Shiraz style of the 1950s and '60s with the supple freshness of contemporary winemaking. It has achieved its high status in a relatively short time: the first vintage was 1984.
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Expert Review
LANGTONS
Medium crimson. Intense perfumed Turkish delight/musky/plum chocolate aromas. Beautifully concentrated wine with blackberry/ Turkish delight/ plummy fruit intertwined with fine soft lacy/chocolatey tannins, finishing long and fruit sweet. An incredibly well poised wine showing neither opulence nor restraint. Andrew Caillard MW (2002).
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Gary Walsh
Dark and earthy, but with some juicier raspberry fruit underneath and choc-liquorice coming up with air. Some rosy vanilla oak still noticeable. It’s still holding plenty of fruit which became increasingly sweet and seductive as the wine opened up. Fresh with a lick of dryish tannin but a pretty supple sort of wine all in all. I thought there was initially a slightly mouldy cork derived flavour in this bottle, although it lessened as the fruit came forward, which I’m ignoring in the score. Ready now, but plenty left in the tank for this vintage, subject to performance of the cork.
95 points, The Wine Front (September 2009)
