Shiraz

Tuesday Tasting is a regular feature of Lyke2Drink that explores some of the best beers, wines and spirits on the market. This week we taste a dozen Syrah and Shiraz wines.Syrah or Shiraz is a bit of a mystery to some wine drinkers. After all, it is the same grape, but produces wines that go by two names. There is another grape called Petite Sirah, that is a cousin, but not the same grape -- which

Tonight, as I sit watching the Packers destroy the Colts and my fantasy football team championship hopes fading, I turned the other cheek and enjoyed a bottle of Four Corners Shiraz from Australia with Mrs. Grapeinabottle. This Shiraz, along with the company of Mrs. Grapeinabottle, definitely made the game better. Four [...]

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Rating : WA-91 Vintage : 2006 Size : 750 ml Sale Price : $9.59 Purchase :FinestWine.com Decsription : The 2006 Shiraz is composed of 46% McLaren Vale, 44% Riverland, and 10% Barossa Valley fruit. It was aged in seasoned French and American oak for 12 months. Opaque purple-colored, it has a nose of cedar, spice box, and blueberry. Fruit-driven, supple-textured, [...]

Country:Australia Region:South Eastern Australia Category:Australian Red Wine Size:75cl ABV:14% Vintage : 2005-2006 Price :£6.74 Purchase :FinestWine.com Ideal with:pasta, red meats, blue or matured cheeses Description: Smooth, soft red with ripe cherry fruit flavours and a touch of oa Source :

Country: Australia Region: South Eastern Australia Category: Rose Wine Size: 75cl Body: ABV: 12.50% Vintage: 2006/2007 Price: £7.29 Purchase: FinestWine.com Ideal with: chicken, pastas, seafood dishes, salads Description: Attractive salmon pink in colour. Appealing aromas of fresh raspberry and mulberry fruits, underpinned with a cinnamon spice background. Elegant, ripe and

Producer: Yalumba Wine: Barossa 95% Shiraz & 5% Viognier Vintage: 2004 Country: Australia Appellation: Barossa Valley Wine Type: Red Varietal: Shiraz 95%, Viognier 5% Category: Excellent Value Grade: A- Price: $17.00 Purchase: FinestWine.com “Yalumba.” Go ahead and say it out loud, “Yalumba.” There, you now know an aborigine word. It means, “all the land around.” Now it’s up to y

Description: Every spring Turkey Flat select a few of their finest barrels of Shiraz to become base wines for this bottle of fermented sparkling wine. Base wines are matured in seasoned French oak hogsheads for up to three years before being tiraged in the traditional champagne method. Following this second fermentation the wine is left to mature [...]

Description: A non-vintage wine with the younger wines imparting lifted primary fruit characters while the older wines soften and add complexity. Selected parcels of full flavoured Shiraz grapes are utilised from only our premium vineyards. The style shows aromas of rich berry fruit with lifted Shiraz spice. Subtle yeast complexity and light vanillin oak are evident. A [...]

Varietal: Shiraz Vintage: 2006 Colour: Red Style: Dry Producer: Ascender Cellars Winery Origin: Australia - South East Australia Alcohol Content: 13.5% Bottle Size: 75cl Price: €10.99 Purchase: FinestWine.com Description: This big Aussi shiraz is very dark and rich. There is excellent weight of ripe plummy bittersweet cherry fruits with just a hint of spice and cedar wood. This is a delicious w

Colour Red Rating 10 Wine Style Really bold red Brand Rosemount Alc 13.5% Grape Grenache Blend Country Australia Region South East Australia Price Band £5 to £7 Wine Type Still Available In 75cl Cork/Screw Cap Screwcap Organic No Available from FinestWine.com Source:

Ben Riggs is the winemaker at Australia’s acclaimed Penny’s Hill in the McLaren Vale. He works double duty producing the The Black Chook for Woop Woop Wines, sourcing Shiraz and Viognier from Langhorne Creek and the McClaren Vale to produce this gritty outback Shiraz cleverly balanced with Viognier to add stone fruit perfumes and velvet [...]

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I picked up a nice bottle of good cheap wine: Purple Moon Shiraz from Trader Joe’s. This wine, made in Manteca California, was a pretty typical Shiraz with an atypical price tag. For only $3.99, this turned out to be one of many fantastic selections I made at Trader Joe’s. I enjoyed this Shiraz with some [...]

Varietal: Shiraz Vintage: 2004 Colour: Red Style: Dry Producer: De Leuwen Jagt Winery Description: This wine has lots of hot sweet ripe fruits on the palate of prunes, figs and mocha flavours. Good balanced acidity and chewey tannins with great length and a long lingering finish. Ageing Potential: Drink Now Tasting Note: This big, satisfying blend of [...]

Name: Lazy Lizard Shiraz Type: Red Grape: Shiraz Origin: France Year: 2005 Producer: Paul Boutinot Price: $7.99 Buy This Wine: FinestWine.com I got this one from the bargain bin, it was $10.99 and I got it for $7.99, let’s see why, shall we? I was surprised this wine is from France, I guess lazy lizards just remind me more of Australia. So does [...]

É sempre bom falar de vinho australiano. Acredito que em poucos lugares do mundo (com exceção dos Estados Unidos) os produtores ousaram tanto. Avanços importantes surgiram e continuarão surgindo na Austrália. Sempre digo que existem duas Austrálias, aquela dos vinhos produzidos em série — quase como refrigerantes — e a Austrália dos grandes vinhos. A [...]

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Every year, the wine industry bible The Australian And New Zealand Wine Industry Directory reports a rise in the number of Australian wine producers, usually about 10 per cent. This year, the directory notes producers - not all have wineries- are up by 7.1 per cent. The total is 2299, an increase of 153 from last year, although there are many more than the directory lists: most weeks I look up someone new and fail to find them. Exciting new producers are continually appearing, too many for we scribes to acknowledge. Many of their most impressive wines are shiraz, which is no surprise: it's Australia's signature grape. One-fifth of the samples I receive are shiraz, which is a bit frustrating as it doesn't give a balanced view of the market.

  I had lots of things I hoped to accomplish today.  Instead,  I spent the beginning of the day nursing the Shiraz hangover from hell.  It wasn’t a hangover as much as it was the result of my friend Allison and I convincing ourselves it would be wise to to sit outside in 20 degree weather and drink wine for hours. (Hey! We had a fire pit and a roaring fire to keep us warm..) Oddly enough, this sitting outside in bizarre temperatures became an even better idea as the glasses were emptied and refilled.  My husband, of course, decided to be a wise ass and holler as we walked out the door, “see you guys in five minutes. it’s too cold out there. blah blah blah.” At that point, we had to stay outside.  At least for a time longer than five minutes, because who was he to tell us how to tolerate the FREEZING air?  Psshh. I was going to be tough. Of course, this morning when I was trying to tuck my cold feet between his in  bed, rubbing my cold nose against his ba

Australien, McLaren Vale Coriole Contour 4, 2004 Sangiovese Shiraz 14 % vol. Letztens wurde erst im Rahmen der 5. Weinrallye dieser Wein von hausmannskost verkostet - und ist nicht gerade positiv aufgefallen. Coriole-Beschreibung Spannend hat sich der Wein laut Coriole auf jeden Fall angehört, der aus 65% Sangiovese und 35 % Shiraz besteht. Er ist bei Adelaide, nordwestlich von Melbourne

After a long drive back from Raleigh, NC my wife in I weren’t in the cooking mood so we opted for a wine and cheese dinner. I wish i could do this every night but i am certain my doctor wouldn’t approve. Onto the note… I look forward to seeing Aussie wines utilizing the screw cap (or as the snobs called it, the stelvin enclosure), needless to say I was disappointed to have to break out the almost obsolete corkscrew. The nose shouted “fruit bomb” with sweet strawberries & dark berries. The forward fruit coated my entire pallet with a finish that lingered 15+ seconds. If you are a new world fan then this is for you. Old world fans, don’t even touch this. I’ll go 90+ , great effort, [new world fans] seek this out!

Dalia Sofer's, "Septembers of Shiraz", is a compelling debut novel, set in Tehran (Iran), in 1981. The chaos and swing-to-the-right following the ousting of the shah and the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, made everyone suspicious of everyone. Minorities like the Persian Jews were amongst the first to suffer of a psychotic cleansing and witch hunt.The story follows Isaac Amin, an Iranian-Jewish rare-gem dealer who is arrested, jailed and tortured for months, for no other reason than his religion, and on basis of a vague suspicion.What attracted me in the book is that, although it is fiction, it follows the mind twists of someone in fear of loosing everything, with such close detail you can smell the sweat, blood, tears and excrement. It kept me from sleeping at night.Dalia was born in Tehran in 1972 and fled Iran with her family in 1982. They first went to Israel, and then to New York City.For a more updated view on Iran, remember this post.

Earlier in his life, Hafiz was a drunkard having little to do with religion. One day, he was staggering across the street, he saw a piece of paper in the gutter among the filth. Curious, he picked it up. The name of God was written on on it."Woe that I should see Your name fallen into such places!" Hafiz cried, brushed it off, and handled the paper with reverence. That night he had a dream.In the dream, a voice told him: "Hafiz, you have raised my name from where it was, and I shall elevate your name among human beings." This is how Hafiz began his career as a sufi (mystic) saint and still today he is one of the greatest poet of all time.- Quoted from the book, The Black Pearl by Henry Bayman.This story touches upon the sufi concept of courtesy or adab. Courtesy contains: harmony/ gentleness (hilm), reverence (burmah), purity (safiyah), tranquility (sukuun), sincerity (ikhlas), modesty (tawazu), solitude (halwat) and spiritual poverty (faqr). Sometime courtesy in the path is also refe

Descripción Viña Tarapacá: “Las uvas orgánicas que dan origen a este ensamblaje de Cabernet Franc, Shiraz y Merlot, provienen de nuestros propios viñedos plantados en pie de monte y ubicados en Isla de Maipo, zona que posee un ecosistema protegido, lo que permite la aplicación de tratamientos libres de cualquier pesticida o producto químico. Un porcentaje [...]

That’s my lunch yesterday of Trader Joe’s BBQ chicken salad served with a glass of 2004 Kirkham Shiraz, although I’d usually pick a Zinfandel for the pairing. And it was going to be today’s lunch, except I watched Jesus Camp with friends tonight and the teacher had said she was going to make BBQ chicken pizza. While the movie was rather disturbing in the fervor being displayed, the food was super tasty and so was the wine. The pizza had just the right amount of heat to match the pepper in the glass, and the chocolate and plum flavors made for a nice finish. However, as the wine was gone as we were just beginning to eat, we also opened the 2004 Red Truck Red Wine. The purchaser– big fan of biodegradable wine (and by that, she means biodynamic)–was scared I’d be mad at her for buying a bottle for its label. Red Truck Wines was started by the owners of Cline Cellars and I’ve been meaning to try it myself, so no need for worry. It’

I'm beginning to really like my red wine in the evening. (Oh gawd, I'm turning into my mother! In this case, I don't mind too much.) So Big Bad Dad has been hitting the liquor store shelves looking for something good to bring home. A recent find was Woop Woop, a 2004 Shiraz from Australia. Great stuff! Here's what BusinessWeek online had to say about it:89 points. This 100% shiraz from South Australia sees some oak, a small amount of which is new wood. (New barrels impart more flavor than those that have been used before.) Notes of flowers, black currants, licorice, and road tar are discernible, but the emphasis is on oodles of up-front fruit, an opulent attack, sweet tannin, and a lush, heady mid-palate and finish. This is the type of everyday red that will be exceptionally popular. Enjoy it over the next two to three years. $11Believe it or not, 10 ounces of red wine is only four Weight Watchers Points. That's a pretty big indulgence for not many points - and at $11 a bottle

Wine Blogging Wednesday is already upon us. Luckily, the category of New World Syrah was an easy one to fill. Though I already had several Syrahs from California (and just recently bought two more on my Napa day trip), I decided to fight the onset of cellar palate and go outside the States. And as France was out…. The first was the 2004 Eventide Cellar Shiraz ($15 from K & L) from Wellington, South Africa.(100% Shiraz, 12 months in American oak) It was pleasant enough, with aromas and flavors of pepper, raspberry, clove, and eucalyptus. Perhaps part of the problem was my lackluster meal, but I wasn't extremely excited about this one. Less than 24 hours later, I retasted to find the wine smoother, with more spice and the suggestion of cocoa. The other wine I reviewed was The Black Chook ($17 from Beltramo's), a NV sparkling Shiraz from Southeastern Australia. From what I could find, it’s made by Woop Woop Wines, and much of the fruit comes from the McLaren Val

Wine Blogging Wednesday #30 has been posted and the deadline is quickly approaching, due to impending holidays. The topic is right up my alley, though, as I’ve been very enamored with Syrah lately. Tim at Winecast wants it to be New World versions, so I’m thinking South Africa or a return to Australia, [...]

Días freak!! Partimos con la Matilda Svensson diciendo que hoy es el día 69 del año y que el día estaba extraño mmm jajaja cosas de ella, además ayer vi en las noticias que habían encontrado una sirena o mas bien parecía un triton que lo encontraron en un barco que salió de Brasil y que a las 2 horas lo encontraron quemado en las costas de Australia mmm eso si que es extraño mas encima había una grabación que decía que 2 días antes se habían encontrado con seres extraños que los seguían y que capturaron a uno que se acerco al barco y luego vino una ola gigante y seria todo... apareció quemado y todos muertos. Vean la foto, no es muy lindo que digamos, cosas de la criptozoologia (mas info)...Además hoy, encontraron a una familia de humanos cuadrúpedos (en realidad nunca salieron en las noticias, pero siempre estuvieron ahí) viven en Turquía y como dije caminan en “4 patas” era de esperar el boom de esto ya que los estudiosos de la evolución creen que podría t

This one is a bit more expensive than what I usually propose to you. But it was in sale so I took the occasion to buy a couple of them ;-))) This Australian wine is simply incredible. A full mouth of fresh fruits with a little taste of wood. One of the best wine I ever tasted. Highly recommended. The 2002 vintage is ready to drink but can also be kept for another 2 or 3 years.

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I just wanted to share my wine taste with you and say that my favorite red wine is Jim Barry The Lodge Hill Shiraz. Maybe you should buy a bottle of this red wine if you find it in a shop or liquor store nearby? The price in Finland is ...