Savitar Shriaz, Mitolo

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The saturated blue/purple coloured 2002 Shiraz Savitar offers gorgeous aromas of white flowers, liquid minerals, blackberries, blueberries, earth, and tree bark. Ripe and full bodied, with great intensity, this prodigious effort will require 2 3 years of cellaring. Anticipated maturity: 2006 2018. Barrel samples of three 2002s revealed tremendous potential in what appears to be the finest efforts Mitolo has yet produced. There are 300 400 cases of each, and all three are scheduled to be bottled in October. Kudos to young importer (31 years old!) Ben Hammerschlag for unearthing these potential superstars.