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Excerpt from Brad Freely's Wine Column

I uncork the bottle and I'm immediately smitten by the faint aroma of toasted oak - fairly unusual for a Chilean Shiraz. It's soft on the nose with a pleasant lingering scent of black currant. But my first tastes reveal that all is not as it seems; I'm taken slightly aback. There's more blackberry here than black currant, and a few more sips confirm that this is indeed a wine worth spending some time with.