Magpie Estate, Blacksock Vintage:1998 sea breeze and quinine

sea breeze and quinine

10% Merlot and 5% Petit Verdot

pure and notably high-toned nose blends notes of airy red pinot fruit with hints of cherry

opulent nose

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Magpie Estate, Blacksock Vintage:1998 sea breeze and quinineThe prodigious 1998 Shiraz Mourvedre Black Sock (80% Shiraz and 20% Mourvedre from 60 100 year old vines) is a blockbuster. Aged for a whopping 30 months in American wood, this opaque purple colored wine offers an almost essence of blackberry and cherry fruit intermixed with earth, leather, charcoal, and new wood. The wine is full bodied, spectacularly concentrated, with multiple levels to its mid palate, and a whoppingly powerful, rich finish. I was