Take a taste of some of Australia's finest Shiraz with this magnum of 2003 McWilliams Hanwood Estate Shiraz. The 2003 vintage is generally very good in the regions from which this wine is sourced. It's characterized by warm and dry weather, which results in fully ripened fruit. Relatively low yields allow for highly concentrated, full-flavored grapes. All the grapes for this vintage were picked during the cool of the night, de-stemmed, lightly crushed and transferred to a combination of rotary and 'headed-down' fermentation tanks to extract maximum color and flavor. A portion of the wine was barrel fermented in new American oak puncheons, before the entire wine was matured in a combination of one, two and three-year-old oak for nine months.