1999 Elderton Command Shiraz

We talked about a syrah tasting? I don’t remember that, but sure I’m in.

Have had '98 Command and '98 Black Pepper in the last two months…both were stunning wines that weren’t syrupy at all.

Not true, I have several but have never opened them. It doesn’t sound like I want to.

You almost bought more a couple of weeks ago.

I did?

The 96 Command the 98 E&E have been the best of the lot for me…but I also can’t guarantee provenance on any of them since I bought them on the secondary market. Could have been prematurely aged…although they didn’t seem damaged.

I got the Command on release from Costco and the Black Pepper came directly from Oz via a broker in San Francisco. Every one of the BPs that I have had over the past few years have been very good to incredible. Maybe provenance played a factor in that one.