This is a hot wine from a hot wine maker. Robert Parker gave this vintage 98/100. But Wine Spectator was more restrained, giving it a relatively modest 92. I'm with Wine Specator on this one. I had it with a few friends and while it was very nice, it didn't blow us away by any means. We had a bottle of the Pio Cesare Fides Barbera (post coming soon) and there was total agreement that the Fides was a much better wine (at half the price) because it was sigificantly more complex. The Amon-Ra was well balanced with good flavours, but without anything that would put it into that category of really special wines. Kelly and I had the Glaetzer Bishop a couple of weeks before, and there wasn't much difference between them, even though the Bishop was half the price.
Here's Kelly's note: "Intense nose of lush blackdurrant with evergreen and black pepper. Lush, smooth, and soft on palate with firm tar edge to end. Very nicely balanced. Up with Elderton command and Wolf Blass Black Label 1999 shirazes, which are best ones I've had. General agreement that (a) shiraz just isn't a particularly complex grape and (b) the Amon-Ra, while good, isn't great value at $70 or even $60. Ted says this isn't a classic big Aussie shiraz, as it's not so big on the fruit and doesn't have the pepper he's used to."
Price: Approx $70
Score: 92
Value: 2/5
Tasted: April 2008
ANBL UPC: No longer listed
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