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[The Wine Front] I’ll have to double-check but I suspect that this is the first vintage of Dardell Shiraz to be bottled with a screwcap closure. The vines here are mature (planted 1988) but the Paradise IV brand only started in 2006.

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[Dalton Wine Ltd - Australian Wine Online] Top 100 Best Australian Wines 2010: The word unique (like passion) is used so much I avoid it wherever I can, but it has to be used to describe this wine with its base of decanted museum red wines dating back over 40 years, a hogshead of Primo Estate Shiraz added every year since 1989, and a hogshead of Joseph Moda Cabernet Merlot every year since 1991, meaning an annual bottling of only two hogsheads or 800 bottles. As ever, very complex;

[Chris Shanahan] Cellaring for pleasure: Achieving adequate natural cellar conditions in Canberra depends on having a house with adequate space underneath, preferably away from external walls, in a south eastern corner or partly excavated into the ground or pushing back into a hillside. Before building up a collection in an area like this, though, it’s worth monitoring the temperature over the summer months.

[Wine Bazar] Best Short Wine List - City Wine Shop, Melbourne » Wine Bazar: be a Philipponnat Royale Reserve champagne on offer, or Michel Lafarge aligote from Burgundy, a Chalmers nero d'Avola, or perhaps something more mainstream but just as delicious, such as a Paradise IV Dardel shiraz.

[Wine Discussion] wine: Notes from a dinner: 2006 Paradise IV Dardel Shiraz Diam. Similar to the last bottle. A little VA. Meaty and spicy. Funky and some iodine and mineral. Very Good wine now but I shall not keep. 2007 Delas Freres Cotes du Rhone Saint Esprit ...

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