Torbreck, Barossa Valley, Factor, Shiraz 2004 Red sometimes Cabernet Franc

sometimes Cabernet Franc

nicely complex flavors

More about finesse than power

crunchy array of summer-berry flavors

on September 17

Torbreck, Barossa Valley, Factor, Shiraz 2004 Red sometimes Cabernet Franc97 points 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 Powells rendition of a Cote Rotie. (RP) (10 2006) 96 points Jeb Dunnuck Slightly exotic and a bruiser at the