Andrew Hardy’s 2006 Ox Shiraz has a deep garnet-purple color and moderately intense notes of smoked meat, earth, warm plums, kirsch, leather and baking spices. This is a full-bodied, concentrated beauty with a solid medium-firm level of chewy tannins, medium-high acid and a long finish. Drinking now, it should continue to cellar to 2016.Importer: Southern Starz, Huntington Beach, CA; tel. (714) 892-3030