2003 Burge Family Winemakers Dry Grown Granacha (Grenache)

The wine is appealing, with lifted aroma of raspberry, spice and violets providing a delightful sniff. Medium body with crimson colour and mauve hue. The palate is mouthfilling, with flavours of spice, black and white pepper, liquorice and raspberry. Fine dry tannins. Aftertaste of raspberry and white pepper.
Cellar 3-4 years (2008-2009)
Alc/Vol: 15.8%

Other Reviews...
The 2003 Garnacha/Grenache (92% Grenache and 8% Mourvedre from 10- to 80-year-old vines) is a gorgeously complex wine offering notes of dusty earth, tree bark, jammy black cherry fruit, cedar, and spice box. Dense, opulent, and full-bodied, with a savory, velvety texture as well as an exceptionally long finish, it can be enjoyed now and over the next 5-7 years.
 
Readers should not confuse Burge Family Winemakers (one of Australia’s finest wineries) with the much larger firm of Grant Burge. Burge Family Winemakers’ old vine estate-bottled offerings, made by the modest, but enormously talented Rick Burge, are classic Barossa wines with extraordinary elegance as well as complex aromatics that combine European subtlety with Australian power.
92 Points
Robert Parker – The Wine Advocate # 161 (Oct 2005)