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2016 Voyager Estate Shiraz

Margaret River, Western Australia, AUSTRALIA
$36. 99
Bottle
$443.88 Dozen
Cellar: Drink now - 6 Years (2019-2025)
ABV: 14%
Closure: Stelvin
Totally opaque black dark red colour with a bright dark red hue. Meaty dark cherry and liquorice aromas meld into scorched earth, vanillin cedar and blackpepper notes. More forthcoming and generous the medium to full bodied palate is flush with spicy dark to black cherry and liquorice flavours which sit over earth, dried meat, vanillin cedar and pepper elements. Solidly built tannins give some firmness to the finish. Youthful acidity concluding with a medium to long aftertaste.
Cellar 5-6 years.
Alc. 14%

Other Reviews….
This is iron fist in a velvet glove stuff. Its immediate inclusion of black fruits, spice, French oak and tannins all have a stately quality, yet the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This is a new generation Margaret River shiraz that has moved on from being a bit experimental to the stage where it can stand up to Margaret River cabernet. Drink by 2031.
94 points
James Halliday – Australian Wine Companion