Rockford, Basket Press Shiraz other_regions_italy Just very slightly austere

Just very slightly austere

There is both fine punch and volume to the utterly delicious and lightly mineral-inflected flavors that display traces of warmth and rusticity on the otherwise solidly persistent and complex finish

here in its first vintage

A highly spiced

This is also quite restrained but a bit less structured

Rockford, Basket Press Shiraz other_regions_italy Just very slightly austereThe 2008 Basket Press Shiraz comes from a vintage noted for a brutal heat wave during the harvest, yet it shows no raisining or dried fruit. It's still rich and full bodied, with super ripe blackberry flavors and a bit of jamminess, then finishes dry and tannic. That dry edge will always be there, so there's no reason to defer gratification but also no rush to drink up.