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Bid on this 2-bottle tasting lot; including 1-bottle of 1999 Jim Barry "The Armagh" Shiraz Clare Valley South Australia (93WS, 92RP) and 1-bottle of 2001 Jim Barry "The Armagh" Shiraz Clare Valley (96RP, 95WS, 94JH). Of the 2001 Jim Barry "The Armagh" Shiraz Clare Valley, Wine Advocate writes: "This wine was recommended, but no tasting note was given." (10/2004)

This is a brilliant wine that makes you sit up and pay attention. Concentrated and mouthwatering with spicy liquorice root and black cherries. Needs a couple more years to fully open but already it packs a punch without being overpowering, and it achieves the feat of great wines where you simply know how good they are by how your palate responds to the effortless balance of tannin, juice and brambled fruit. Long ageing potential also. 3.5pH, 70% French oak, 30% American oak. From sandy gravel soils with full sun exposure meaning natural low yields of around 30hl/ha. (JA)