2003 Branson Wines Shiraz Coach House RP--98

Robert Parker: 98 Points
Wine Advocate #161 Oct 2005 Robert Parker 98 Drink: 2007 - 2025 $99 (90) The fabulous, inky/purple-hued 2003 Shiraz Coach House only carries 14.5% alcohol (in the land of 15% full-throttle Shiraz). It offers a huge nose of blackberry and cassis liqueur, plums, figs, barbecue smoke, and lead pencil shavings. A wine of great intensity, enormous concentration, moderately high tannin, and a blockbuster finish, it needs 2-3 more years of bottle age, and it should last for 10-20 years. This is an impressive successor to Branson Coach House’s equally exciting 2002.