Richard Hamilton - Centurion 111 Year Old Vine Shiraz 2003 (750ml) Oregon Willamette Valley Pinot Noir

Richard Hamilton - Centurion 111 Year Old Vine Shiraz 2003 (750ml) Oregon Willamette Valley Pinot NoirA true Icon, The Centurion takes its name from of one of Australias and indeed the Worlds oldest surviving vineyards, planted in 1892 by brothers Walter and Clement Philipson. Changing hands to Thomas Wigley in 1893, acquired by Burton Wyndam Hamilton in 1947 and passed to Dr Richard Hamilton. A classy Shiraz showing aromatics and spicy perfumed lifted enhanced through beautifully integrated French oak which provides a subtle cedar background to the

pasta dishes and even chocolate desserts

including fermentation in small

and seamless Chardonnay that is delicious today and will be fantastic over the next decade or more

Try it with Stilton cheese and toasted walnuts

Tasted blind at the BIVB offices in Chablis

with a gilding of modern-style mocha and bacon-accented toast that melds perfectly into the core of gently steeped plum and blackberry fruit

and now for many wine connoisseurs around the world

black cherry and wild black fruits

Joe Bauer is pretty unpretentious guy

The extended maceration time provided structure and a very fine tannin that blends into the white-fleshed fruit

While the first known reference to Lafite dates to 1234 with a certain Gombaud de Lafite

" - Walter Bressia