Plush, very internationally styled Shiraz showing handsome deep fruit and lavish, toasty oak. Yes, it’s a bit generic—meaning maybe you can’t tell where it’s from–but it’s undeniably delicious. The coffee-smoky oak nose, tart-sweet plum fruit and briary accents leave no doubt about the quality or pleasure quotient here. Seductive now, even better 2005-2008. ——M.M.(7/1/2004)—— 89