Halliday's Top 101 Wines

Reds: Now we come to the big end of town - 316 starters reduced to a long shortlist of 116, and somehow this became 27, an agonising process.  All of these lovely wines deserve their inclusion....

Godolphin 2004 - 95 points
You may actually be able to buy this, unlike its on-strict-allocation big brother Amon-Ra.  Winemaker Ben Glaetzer has blended shiraz and cabernet sauvignon, and bottled it unfiltered after 18 months in quality oak.  It is quite delicious, with supple and luxuriant blackcurrant, cassis and blackberry intermingling with fine and soft tannins.  Quality cork.