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Massena The Eleventh Hour Shiraz 2008

  • Region Barossa Valley, SA
  • Type Red
  • Size 750ml
  • Alcohol 14.5%
Massena The Eleventh Hour Shiraz 2008
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It's always an interesting exercise to taste consecutive vintages of a wine. It's a great way to explore the nature of the different conditions that produced the flavours each year. Echoing a warm vintage, the 2008 Eleventh Hour Shiraz is touch softer and richer than the previous release. Sweet black jubes, red and black liquorice, tea and cinammon combine with a little pepper in a lip smacking package that's drinking smoothly already. If you can, grab a bottle of both the 2007 & the 2008 and hold your own little tasting experiment. You'll get to know the wine a lot better. -JP
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94Points
James Halliday, the Wine Companion
 says:

Impenetrable colour; an opulent array of essency black fruits, dark chocolate, mulled spices and mocha; the palate is unctuous, showing deep levels of concentrated sweet fruit, followed by chewy tannins to conclude; a rich wine, perfect for a cold night.


93Points
Campbell Mattinson & Gary Walsh, The Big Red Wine Book
 says:

It's big and overtly sweet but it has some finesse too. This is a very good wine. It tastes of toast, raspberries, earth and hay, and both its intensity and freshness is quite compelling. For all its power, though, it slides easily through your mouth as you swallow - it doesn't have a lot of tannin, but it has a lot of class. Beautiful, modern Barossa Shiraz.


92Points
Nick Stock, Wine100
 says:

Another step in the right direction for the Massenna project with this juicy, smooth shiraz. The nose is choc-full of black fruits and has a gently spicy, earthy undercurrent. Plently of flesh on the palate and abundant dark berry flavour; smooth tannins roll in through the finish.


92Points
Josh Raynolds, International Wine Cellar
 says:

Opaque purple. Exotic perfume of boysenberry, singed plum, cherry-cola, violet and licorice, with a subtle savory note of olive in the background. Fleshy, palate-staining dark fruit flavors are framed by velvety tannins that fade away on the back end. The floral quality repeats strongly on the finish, which lingers with excellent authority. This saw no new oak.


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