A staff AND customer favorite at our November 9th, 2008 tasting of McLaren Vale wines from the 1998 vintage.  Get it while you can!!

"The nearly outstanding 1998 Estate Reserve (a 700-case blend of 75% Shiraz and 25% Cabernet) boasts aggressive sweet oak in addition to jammy black currants, berries, and smoky aromas as well as flavors. With admirable plumpness and fatness, it provides a succulent mouthful of fruit, glycerin, and alcohol (about 14%)."  Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate, June 2001.

"It’s difficult to think of another producer who offers such enjoyable wines at such reasonable prices. Despite their old world heritage, the sons have a new world outlook on wine and this has been particularly evident in their past few vintages. Last year we saw the debut of two new wines for them: the 1998 Scarpantoni Shiraz/Cabernet Reserve and the 1999 Scarpantoni Maslin Beach “Blanche Point”, a Shiraz/Cab/Merlot blend. These enhance the rest of their portfolio to comprise one of the most exciting lineups of wines we carry." --Dan Philips, importer. Excerpted from The Grateful Palate producer profiles.