Torbreck The Factor Shiraz 2004
Syrah/Shiraz
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Product Details
Varietal
Producer
Vintage
2004
Size
750ML
Features
Collectible
Your Rating
Somm Note
Winemaker Notes
"Made from 100% Shiraz that spent 24 months in French oak (30% new), the exuberant, flamboyant 2004 The Factor offers up gorgeously pure blueberry and blackberry fruit intermixed with smoke, bacon fat, camphor, and graphite. Silky smooth, and, as David Powell says, "the most Barossa-like" of all his wines, it represents Powell's rendition of a Cote Rotie. It can be drunk over the next 15-20 years."
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Professional Ratings
- Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
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Jeb Dunnuck
Slightly exotic and a bruiser at the moment, the 2004 Torbreck Shiraz The Factor has amazingly rich dark fruit, meat, earth, flowers, chocolate and bacon notes literally jumping from the glass and there's not a trace of heat. The palate is full bodied with nice structure but so much fruit overlaying everything that it's easy to miss. Beautifully balanced, textured and complex, it's hard not to love this wine and the finish is long and rich.
Rating: 96+ - Wine Enthusiast
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Torbreck, founded in 1994 by David Powell, is situated at Marananga on the western ridge of the Barossa. Since that time he has produced some of the world's finest 'Rhone varietal' wines, exclusively from Barossa fruit; this has been acknowledged by the wine press in Europe, America and Australia. The overwhelming majority of his vines are dry-grown, nearly all are 80 - 125 years old and are tended and harvested by hand.
The wines have an extraordinary combination of power, intesity, complexity and great finesse, and bearing in mind the age of the vines and the laughably low yields, no Torbreck wine could ever be accused of being heavy, cloying or over-extracted.
EWLAUTORFAC04_2004 Item# 89245