Australian wine at its finest

2005 Jim Barry, The McRae Wood Shiraz, Clare Valley, South Australia (£22.50, selected branches of Waitrose, www.waitrose.com ).

I will launch my annual 100 Best Australian Wines list next week online and this phenomenal red is one of my century of greats. The reason I am flagging it up a few days before the official release is because the sales will go nuts and I want you, my MoneyWeek reader, to have the first stab at getting some stock.

Very rarely do we see fully mature, top-of-the-line Aussie Shiraz on sale in the UK. The McRae Wood is a stupendous property which the late, great Jim Barry bought 45 years ago, and it's where he planted his first shiraz vineyard. Made with lashings of American oak and swathes of blueberry, cinnamon, tar, lavender and vanilla this is one of those wines that is so evocative you barely know where to start.

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