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The 1996 Shiraz the Malcolm takes winemaking to the extreme,yet manages to pull it off without producing a total freak.How do you describe such a wine? Yields were miniscule...one ton of fruit per acre from 60-year-old vines.Production was 100 cases and the wine's alcohol content is a mammouth 16.5%.This wine,which lasted 4 days in the bottle,before I decided to pass the balance through my bowels displays an opaque black/purple color and exotic coffee,chocolate,Asian spice,roast duck,and blackberry and prune liqueur-like aromas.To say this wine is unctuously textured is an understatement.The wine looks like 10-W-40 motor oil.Very thick and dry but remarkably balanced,fabulous purity,and a finish that goes on nearly a minute,this spectacular Shiraz will become more civilized with each year of aging.It is the type of wine that some Pomerol estates produced in such vintages as 1947,1949,and 1950,but would dare not fashion today,because modern oenologists refuse to let grapes become this ripe.A winemaking tour-de-force,the Shiraz the Malcolm 1996 should age effortlessly for 40 years or more.
(99 Points).
Robert Parker. (Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide. Fifth Edition).
When I spoke to the winemaker (Rolf Binder) in 2009 at the winery in the Barossa Valley,I mentioned that I had a few bottles of the 1996 stored in my cellar.Even then,he said that there must be only a few bottles of this wine left in the world and that he regretted that he had finished all of his bottles!
Topterroir.
Earlier this year,according to WineSearcher,just two retailers in the world were selling the 1996 Malcolm...one in Germany at a price of £420 and one in the USA at a price of £636 Ex Taxes.
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