The 1998 Monbousquet is medium to deep garnet-brick in color with wonderful dried mulberries

candied lemon and white flowers are all pushed forward

rustic and firmly structured finale

This doesn't offer the fruit of the best in the vintage

Peter Lehmann, Stonewell Shiraz other_regions The 1998 Monbousquet is mediumPeter Lehmann famously championed old vine Barossa Shiraz in the 1980s when growers were paid to grub it up. Created in 1987, this classic barrel fermented 'best of the best' Shiraz comes from a dozen or so top vineyards, the oldest planted in 1885. Exuberant toasty, mocha oak (mostly French, with 10% American) and blueberry and black olive fruit make for a plush, perfumed wine, with a long chassis of fine grained tannins.