Tasted Saturday, September 21, 2013 by CamWheeler with 674 views
Golden with some youthful flashes of lighter colour. Nougat, ginger, citrus peel, oyster shell and earth - plenty of complexity. Very rich fruit still there on the palate combined with great acidity gives it beautiful length. Superb!
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Earthy, with some florals - quite fresh and bright. Decent length, but in the end it lacks depth to be great.
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Complex nose of honey, apricot and light kerosene, peach and orange rind. Full of flavour but there is a wonderful delicacy to the palate. Brilliant acidity that extends and lifts the fruit to another level. A superb stage between youth and maturity. Mesmerizing.
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Rich and perfumed nose of nuts, florals, pear, chalk and oak. Fine and very well balanced palate, there is great fruit intensity but there is also fine detail discernible. Very very youthful, this is in awesome condition.
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Graphite, some spice plus some quince. Changed in the glass, showing more richness. Good texture, medium length. Drink over the medium term.
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Slate, white florals and sesame. Restrained palate, there is fruit there but it is being held in reserve. Great length, this will benefit greatly from more time.
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Intriguing nose - peppery spice, chocolate, violets and some cherry. The palate shows off lighter, brighter red fruit and a lovely mineral core. Super length. This improved rapidly in the glass and I came back to it at the end of the night and it was singing beautifully.
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Raspberry, earth and some charcoal - it is really very earthy in fact. The fruit has some density to it, but there is good structure wrapping around it. An animale earthiness gives the palate interest at the same time, but it is less approachable than many of the other 09 Rousseau wines right now.
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Cherry, rhubarb, raspberry and earth. Quite powerful and rich on the palate, there is excellent depth for the level. Will improve given enough time in bottle.
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Lovely, quite intoxicating perfume of violets, roses and some stemmy influence. Elegant and poised palate, it's really approachable right now, with the perfume and excellent balance making it a treat. Not extremely deep but it's beautiful regardless. I revisited at the end of the evening and the perfume hadn't faded at all, it was just as enthralling and charming as the first glass.
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Expressive and wonderfully perfumed aromas - slate, musk, cherry, earth and floral notes. The nose draws you in but the palate keeps you there with outstanding balance and incredible detail in the fruit. A mineral note persists and stretches the palate length out. The very last sip of this spectacular wine was the best.
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With a bottle last year that was almost impossible to live up to, this came close but it does feel like it has tensed up a little bit, drawing away some of the superficial otherworldliness but leaving just as much interest and potential. That said, the longer it was in the glass the more it opened and flourished. There is licorice, oak, spice and smoke combined with a dark floral touch. The palate is just as powerful as I remember it, with force and opulence, reigned in by precise acidity. So, so close to the last bottle but ever so slightly behind - it was incredible by any measure regardless.
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Probably just a touch cork affected - not enough to ruin it, but enough to ruin it.
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Perfumed nose of musk, cherry, earth and mixed spice. The palate shows great restraint, it is spot on balance wise for my taste with fine tannin woven into a lovely mineral and fruit combination. Lovely wine that probably needs some more time to come out of its shell.
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Leather, earth and cinnamon. Medium length, but fading and not necessarily evocative of old burgundy but the flavour is quite appealing for now with its earthy savouriness. Probably not a pristine bottle.
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1998 Ashton Hills Riesling 87 Points
Australia, South Australia, Mount Lofty Ranges, Adelaide Hills
Honeyed, toast and some light oxidative notes. The palate shows off lots of honey - is there some botrytis here? Decent but fading quickly.
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NV Wild Duck Creek Shiraz Sparkling Duck #4 89 Points
Australia, Victoria, Central Victoria, Heathcote
Florals and spice, cherry and blackberry. Medium bodied with quite nice balance - not overly exciting but it takes a fair bit to do so for me with sparkling reds.
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