Huon Hooke Online.
2008 Reserve Shiraz, Tim Smith Wines.
95Points. Very deep purple. Dense colour. Rich, essency, highly-concentrated aromas, inky and black-fruits and violets. Massive full-bodied, fuller than full: enormous body and ripeness, lashings of vanilla-coconut oak in good balance, charred-timber, smoke, espresso coffee and toffee-like creme brulee/caramellised overtomes. A huge wine with lots of everything, but it's all in balance, amazingly.