Typical taste: aromas and flavors of wild
black-fruit (such as blackcurrant), with overtones of black
pepper spice and roasting meat. The abundance of fruit
sensations is often complemented by warm alcohol and
gripping tannins.
Toffee notes if present come not from the fruit but from
the wine having rested in oak barrels.
The shiraz variety gives hearty, spicy reds. While
shiraz is used to produce many average wines it can produce
some of the world's finest, deepest, and darkest reds with
intense flavors and excellent longevity
