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Torbreck The Factor 2004
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BN#185941 |
Torbreck was established in 1994 by David & Christine Powell and is located on the western ridge of the Barossa Valley. It is named after a forest in the Highlands of Scotland. David Powell is a former lumberjack who picked up his oenological skills working in various vineyards. His vines are predominantly dry-grown (so no irrigation whatsoever), nearly all are 80-125 years old (which means incredible extraction/complexity), and are tended and harvested by hand (always the best way to go). The wines reach unbelievable levels of power, intensity, complexity and finesse, and have the high Parker scores to prove it.
Wine Advocate
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.
Score: 97.
—Robert Parker,
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