The components of this wine has varied over the years with shiraz and Adelaide Hills fruit (I think?) included in the makeup. 2003 is a straight cabernet from McLaren Vale. Straight out of the bottle there's no doubt this is a monster of a wine. Massively ripe nose, hot and penetrating. Exactly the same in the mouth and to be honest the wine was just too hot and searing, and did not go well with dinner (curry) at all.
In fact, I assumed this with was a shiraz grenache blend, and thus quite surprised to discover it was cabernet. Left the glass for 30 minutes and this was time well spent as the wine settled a little and some varietal notes (capsicum and berries) starting creeping onto the palate. However the structure and ripeness of this wine is still too fierce and would be hard to recommend as a drink now option. That said, this will look better with cellaring over the next 12 months.
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