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Inky ruby. Hugely perfumed cherry and dark berry preserve aromas are complicated by suggestions of vanilla, exotic spices and incense. Seamless, broad and attractively sweet, offering densely packed blackberry, cherry-vanilla, mocha and fruitcake flavors and a floral nuance that builds with aeration. The strikingly long, floral- and spice-driven finish shows outstanding clarity and velvety, harmonious tannins.
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Duval's flagship wine is the 2015 Eligo Shiraz, a blend of Barossa Valley and Eden Valley fruit that spent 20 months in 60% new French oak hogsheads. It's toasty and cedary, but those elements are balanced by the wine's deep, persistent dark fruit notes of blueberry, blackberry and boysenberry. Full-bodied and dense without excess weight and framed by fine-grained tannins, it's approachable now, but it should be even better in a decade.