Its dark color promises power, and this wine delivers a broad, chunky Shiraz, with perfumed fruit, dark tannins and a spicy wood structure. Solid concentration gives a wine that somehow manages to assimilate a Franco/Australian variety into a dry Portuguese structure. — (8/1/2009) —90

Dark plums and bitter chocolate on this wine along with powerful structure and tannins. It is ripe, spicy and finely perfumed with full black fruits. The tannins are boosted by wood aging, rounding it out and giving it extra richness.——R.V.(12/15/2007)—— 90