The proprietary blend of 50% Shiraz, 34% Grenache, and 16% Mourvedre, the 2003 Olive Hill is a deep ruby/purple-tinged offering with a sweet perfume of raspberries, cherries, plums, Allspice, new saddle leather, and toasty oak. Super-ripe, concentrated, and strikingly elegant with marvelous equilibrium, it can be drunk now or cellared for 6-8 years. Readers should not confuse Burge Family Winemakers (one of Australia’s finest wineries) with the much larger firm of Grant Burge. Burge Family Winemakers’ old vine estate-bottled offerings, made by the modest, but enormously talented Rick Burge, are classic Barossa wines with extraordinary elegance as well as complex aromatics that combine European subtlety with Australian power.Importer: Dan Philips, The Grateful Palate, Oxnard, CA; tel. (888) 472-5283

The 2003 Garnacha/Grenache (92% Grenache and 8% Mourvedre from 10- to 80-year-old vines) is a gorgeously complex wine offering notes of dusty earth, tree bark, jammy black cherry fruit, cedar, and spice box. Dense, opulent, and full-bodied, with a savory, velvety texture as well as an exceptionally long finish, it can be enjoyed now and over the next 5-7 years. Readers should not confuse Burge Family Winemakers (one of Australia’s finest wineries) with the much larger firm of Grant Burge. Burge Family Winemakers’ old vine estate-bottled offerings, made by the modest, but enormously talented Rick Burge, are classic Barossa wines with extraordinary elegance as well as complex aromatics that combine European subtlety with Australian power.Importer: Dan Philips, The Grateful Palate, Oxnard, CA; tel. (888) 472-5283