and a tight acid spine and serious but polished tannins nicely extending and framing the brooding fruit notes and peppery flintiness on the long

fresh and restrained nose offers good if not special complexity on the mostly red berry fruit-suffused nose

This is also overtly spicy with agreeably fresh

but the wine is exceptionally beautiful and polished from the very first taste

Torbreck, Run Rig Vintage:2012 and a tight acid spineTorbrecks flagship is the 2005 Run Rig, a 97% Shiraz cuvee sourced from 120 to 160 year old vines with 3% finished Viognier added before bottling. It spent 30 months in 60% new French oak. Opaque purple black in color, it has a kinky, exotic bouquet of fresh road tar, smoke, lavender, black pepper, game, blueberry, and black raspberry. Full bodied and opulent on the palate, the wine is dense, packed, and unevolved. It will continue to open up over the