This wine became a hot collector item when Robert Parker ordained it “Classic 98 points!”

Robert Parker TASTING NOTES:
The 2005 Descendant is composed of 92% Shiraz and 8% Viognier which are co-fermented. Opaque purple, with glass-coating glycerin, it offers up a complex array of lavender, violets, blueberry, blackberry, and fresh road tar. Full-bodied, on the palate the wine has great concentration with a noticeable uplift from the Viognier, gobs of spicy black fruits, opulence, and well-concealed tannins which will carry this wine for 10-15 years of further evolution. Drink it through 2030. Torbreck, under the leadership of owner/winemaker David Powell, remains a Barossa Valley benchmark as well as one of the world’s greatest wine estates.