Wine Spectator:  Rated as Very good: a wine with special qualities.  "Smooth, ripe and generous, delivering a supple mouthful of plum, blackberry and guava flavors that flow easily into the long, focused finish. Needs time to soften the edges. Best from 2010 through 2016. 90,000 cases imported."  Mar 2009

Winery:  "Colour: Deep crimson with dark red hues.  Bouquet: Lifted aromas of mulberry and blackberry with underlying hints of cloves and anise, balanced by spicy oak notes.  Palate: The 2006 Jacobs Creek Reserve Shiraz is a full bodied wine displaying rich fruit flavours of dark berries and plums and velvety tannins. Lovely acid balance and integration of flavours result in a supple and engaging wine with a lingering finish of spice, chocolate and mocha. A true expression of Australian Shiraz, to be enjoyed now or which with careful cellaring will develop gracefully over the next ten years."

Wired For Wine:  Come along with us Down Under, winelovers, to the supple deliciousness and terrific value of this Jacob's Creek Reserve Shiraz.  The rich, exquisite dark fruit, sultry spices, perfect acidity and silky tannins of this Shiraz will pair with many, many food choices.  Open your first bottle and enjoy it with strips of chicken satay and a zesty peanut sauce.  If you're not ready for the spice just yet, how about wild mushroom samosas with peas and onions?  As for the entree, this lovely crimson Reserve Shiraz is best with lamb, beef and other meats.  Fire up that barbie because this Aussie red is gorgeous with barbecue and barbecue sauce too.  For simplicity's sake, we love a juicy rib-eye grilled to perfection, topped with a porcini/crimini mushroom butter.  Heavenly.  Moroccan lamb cutlets with spiced couscous will reach out to the layers of spices like cloves and anise in this Jacob's Creek red.  Along the comfort food lines, we suggest the full body of this wine with papardelle tossed with a beef ragout.  You'll never want to leave the table...  Take a moment and then pour another glass and enjoy it with a bitey, tangy aged Parmigiana cheese.  After all that, how could you not have sweet dreams...

Size:  750ml
Varietal:   100% Shiraz
Alcohol:   14.3%
Ageing:    18 months
Region:    Barossa Valley, Australia