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ROCKFORD Basket Press Shiraz, Barossa Valley 2004 Bottle
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ROCKFORD Basket Press Shiraz, Barossa Valley 2004 Bottle
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ROCKFORD Basket Press Shiraz, Barossa Valley
Robert O'Callaghan's Rockford Basket Press Shiraz is one of the Barossa Valley's most important wines. It entered Langton's Classification of Australian Wine in 2000 and is one of 21 wines in the 1st Classified tier today.
It is sold almost exclusively to Rockford's own mailing list customers and is rarely made available to the retail market. Rockford’s squat, high–shouldered brown bottle - reminiscent of 1940s red wine packaging - is instantly recognisable.
Basket Press manages to combine the concentration and power of the traditional Barossa Shiraz style of the 1950s and '60s with the supple freshness of contemporary winemaking. It has achieved its high status in a relatively short time: the first vintage was 1984.
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Expert Review
James Halliday
A complete Barossa traditional Shiraz; moderate alcohol, oak and tannins, yet full of flavour and character. Has taken full advantage of a very good vintage. In its own-branded, high-shouldered brown bottle. 96 points, Wine Companion.
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Gary Walsh
Aromas of plum, raspberry, Turkish Delight, milk chocolate and leather with a tasteful application of vanilla oak. Medium to full bodied palate. Not a blockbuster by any means. There are flavours of berry, plum, milk chocolate and leather. Smooth fine tannins and a beautiful supple texture. Long berry and leather finish. Right up there with my two favourite BP vintages – ’99 and ’96. No shame in opening one now either, although a third of a bottle hardly moved when left overnight.
96 points, The Wine Front (November 2006)
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Campbell Mattinson
We have a beautiful wine on our hands here. It is the best Basket Press Shiraz since 1999. I’m one of those people who loves the pants off Rockford in the Barossa Valley, but who also feels as if the standard hasn’t quite been what it once was over the past four or five years. It’s been good, but not the superstar we all know it to be – it hasn’t dropped, it’s just taken a bit of a buffering, to my taste. The 2004 takes that bad attitude of mine and puts a cork in it. It’s got a beautiful nose, a beautiful palate, a beautiful frame of tannin, and succulent, smoochy length. I could kiss this darling all night long, and God how I wish that I could – every night. Barossa shiraz – you know the flavours. Low oak, black fruit, coal and earth. Once you finish each mouthful, it still feels like it’s got a firm, mesmerising grip on you. One sip, and there really is no escape.
96 points, The Wine Front (October 2006)
