Deep, dark colour and a strongly smoky, charcoaly, sooty kind of bouquet overlying cherry-like fruit. The wine is full-bodied and well-endowed with sweet fruit, supple tannins and again those smoky, charcoal nuances riding over it all. It's hard to distinguish between the characteristics of charred oak and coal-dusty, sooty regional character. It's more likely the latter, as the wine's fruit (cherry, violet, spices) really powers through. A thoroughly delicious wine, very much a shiraz and very regional in style. (5% cabernet sauvignon)