| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments More... |
|---|---|---|
| Red |
2017 De Bortoli Pinot Noir VillagesYarra Valley more |
6/10/2018 - Avid Wino wrote: 90 pointsCherry, strawberry, pinosity, excellent balance and length, nice lick of tannin. 90 or better. |
| Red |
2009 Collector Wines Shiraz Marked Tree RedCanberra District more |
6/3/2018 - Avid Wino wrote: 91 pointsStill richly fruited. Cherry, blackberry, mulberry. Meaty. Spices and touch of cola. Excellent balance and plenty of length. Looking at my note from four years ago, I wasn’t so wowed this time and didn’t pick up so much detail ... have a mild cold, wonder if that’s the reason, or if simply that the bottle four years ago was better than tonight’s. If the latter, does it say something about the super ripe 2009 Canberra reds that were so seductive in their youth? Just musing out loud, is all. |
| White |
2016 Nick Spencer ChardonnayTumbarumba more |
5/27/2018 - Avid Wino wrote: 91 pointsFantastic Chardonnay. Delicate and complex. Compelling, but so subtle that it is magnifying my usual block on Chardonnay descriptors... look up the other notes especially GW’s @ TWF. I might be under rating this significantly. Suspect it’ll look even better in a few years. |
| Red |
2015 De Bortoli Durif Deen Vat 1Riverina more |
5/25/2018 - Avid Wino wrote: 89 pointsGreat on a wintery autumn Friday night when I’ve got a thirst rather than an inquiring mind. Rich dark fruits, chocolate oak. Fullish bodied, lick of tannin, enough balance and length. |
| Red |
2012 Yarraloch Pinot NoirYarra Valley more |
5/20/2018 - Avid Wino wrote: 90 pointsAutumnal pinosity, cherry, strawberry and a smidge of smokey oak. Slippery smooth with fine tannin. Excellent balance and plenty of length. |
| Red |
2008 Tahbilk Cabernet SauvignonNagambie Lakes more |
5/13/2018 - Avid Wino wrote: 91 pointsCassis, blackberry, mint hits the nose. Palate has those too but in equal measure has savoury dried herbs, cigar box, mushrooms, sweet tannins. Excellent balance and length. Mellowed nicely and probably now at its best for my tastes, but should be fine drinking for a few more years. 91 or better. |
| Red |
2016 Yellow Tail ShirazSouth Eastern more |
5/11/2018 - Avid Wino wrote: 81 pointsSO sweet. Syrupy black fruit. Little bit of spice and grip. Look, it is what it is, and on this Friday night I was in the right mood to enjoy slurping my first glass. But during the second found myself thinking “never again”. Perhaps in a few years curiosity will again get the better of me... I remember rating a previous vintage of this quite a bit higher. |
| Red |
2014 d'Arenberg The Stump Jump Grenache Shiraz MourverdeMcLaren Vale Red Rhone Blend more |
5/6/2018 - Avid Wino wrote: 89 pointsA pleasure to drink. Ripe blueberry, raspberry. Spice and a touch of confectionary. Balance excellent. Moderate length. Singing after an hour of air. |
| Red |
2017 De Bortoli Pinot Noir Windy PeakYarra Valley more |
4/27/2018 - Avid Wino wrote: 89 pointsEnjoyed this! Strawberry, cherry, musk, sweet spice. Some mulchy Pinosity. Silty, shapely tannins. Touch and go for higher points but length is moderate. Huge bargain. Suspect this wine augurs well for the higher range 2017 De Bortoli Pinot Noirs. |
| Red |
2015 Brookland Valley Cabernet Merlot Verse 1Margaret River Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/24/2018 - Avid Wino wrote: 87 pointsMulberries, currants, bay leaf, savoury elements, dusty tannin. My 1000th tasting note on cellartracker and indeed of all time... many are more descriptive than this one, some less, but I hope a few have been informative and enjoyable for others in the cellartracker community. I cracked this bottle open knowing about the 1000 note milestone, as it seemed a nice symmetry, given that my first note all the way back in 2010 was also a humble Brookland Valley Verse 1, albeit a Rose. |
| Red |
2007 Mount Pleasant Wines Shiraz Old Paddock & Old HillPokolbin more |
4/22/2018 - Avid Wino wrote: 93 pointsCherry, raspberry, touch of sour cherry, wallet leather, liquorice, earth, coffee, vanilla. The primary elements are dialled down. Plenty of tannin but softened. Some of that mature shiraz sweetness thing. Balance and length excellent. Entering maturity and the drinking zone now, though will go another decade easy, and it’d be an interesting journey to go along on, if this wasn’t my one and only bottle. |
| Red |
2005 Penfolds Shiraz Bin 28 KalimnaSouth Australia more |
4/14/2018 - Avid Wino wrote: 91 pointsIn a good place. Beef, plum, berries, milk chocolate, touch of black pepper, liquorice. Mellowed. Plenty of years of evolution ahead, not anywhere near tired, though whether it improves from here will depend on your tastes. |
| Red |
2012 Clonakilla Shiraz Hilltopsmore |
4/13/2018 - Avid Wino wrote: 90 pointsCherry and black fruits, pepper, spice, and some stalkiness with a confected edge... or maybe stewed... I wondered if it was something to do with the storage of this bottle. On the light side of medium bodied. Excellent balance and finish. Needed an hour of air and improved from there. |
| White |
2011 Howard Park Riesling Great Southernmore |
4/9/2018 - Avid Wino wrote: 93 pointsFantastic to drink. Youthful maturity in enchanting full bloom. Lemon blossom, lemon & lime, lemon drops, some rubber. A mineral spine and fresh acidity. Make sure you don’t chill this too much, serve at 10-12 degrees. |
| Red |
2014 Tyrrell's Shiraz Vat 9Hunter Valley more |
4/8/2018 - Avid Wino wrote: 95 pointsI have never before tasted a wine of such balance and poise... almost otherworldly, the mouth feel. Tremendous length. Berries, cherry, florals on the nose, beetrooty earthiness, a little vanilla oak, liquorice. Gentle tug of tannin. Vinfanticide I know, but I wanted to try this young, and I have more for the decades to come. Balance and length had me pondering higher points, even 97. Yet it left me wanting something more. Perhaps in time. |
| Red |
2014 d'Arenberg Cabernet Sauvignon The High TrellisMcLaren Vale more |
4/6/2018 - Avid Wino wrote: 90 pointsConcentrated blackberry, black currant. Cedar, touch of Dutch liquorice. Cigar box. Rich, almost syrupy. A mouthful of thick, silty tannin, with air more velvet. Fresh acidity balances it up pretty well. Plenty of length. Wouldn’t be surprised if this shows better in a couple of years when it has calmed down a bit more. |
| Red |
2015 St. John's Road Cabernet Sauvignon Line & LengthBarossa Valley more |
4/1/2018 - Avid Wino wrote: 89 pointsBlack currant and blackberry and a lick of tannin. Fresh and ripe. |
| Red |
2015 Warburn Estate ShirazSouth Australia more |
3/31/2018 - Avid Wino wrote: 84 pointsPlums and berries and not a lot of interest. |
| White |
2012 Fraser Gallop Chardonnay Parterre WilyabrupMargaret River more |
3/30/2018 - Avid Wino wrote: 91 pointsNectarine, lime, cashew. Purity of flavour almost like a young Riesling. Both delicate and intense, somehow. Plenty of length. |
| Red |
2008 Vasse Felix Cabernet SauvignonMargaret River more |
3/25/2018 - Avid Wino wrote: 93 pointsGreat drinking right now, a joy! Still primary ripe fruit - currants and black berries - also cassis, cigar box and wallet leather. Feathery tannin and plenty of length. Beginning to mature. Screwcap... and I’m starting to think that’s both good and bad for cellaring reds. In general need a lot of patience to see signs of maturity, with benefit being more reliable linear development. We’ve both gained, and lost, perhaps. I’d like to hear the thoughts of others. |
| White |
2009 Eagles Rest SémillonHunter Valley more |
3/24/2018 - Avid Wino wrote: NRNote to self: made mistake of chilling today’s bottle... don’t! So much better at cellar temperature or only just a touch below. So 10-12 degrees |
| White |
2010 Coolangatta Estate SémillonShoalhaven Coast more |
3/18/2018 - Avid Wino wrote: 88 pointsToast, citrus, excellent length. |
| White |
2008 Howard Park Riesling Great Southernmore |
3/10/2018 - Avid Wino Likes this wine: 94 pointsFair whack of kero up front, and if you see that as fault, you won’t like this so much as I did. Beyond that, wonderfully intense citrus and citrus zest, some apple. Minerality and river pebbles. Length and finish outstanding.... still has that leprechauns dancing on tongue thing going on that it had many years ago when I first tasted as a younger wine. 94 or 95... superb drinking, in any case. |
| Red |
2015 Penfolds Shiraz Cabernet Koonunga Hill Seventy SixSouth Australia Cabernet-Shiraz Blend, Red Blend more |
3/9/2018 - Avid Wino wrote: 91 pointsA joy to drink. Juicy ripe berries, black currants, plums, chocolate, vanilla, roast beef and meat juices, pepper. Framed by a lick of tannin. Maybe a tad hot but enough pleasure, quality and just enough length that I’ll go 91. |
| White |
2016 Brookland Valley Chardonnay Verse 1Margaret River more |
3/4/2018 - Avid Wino wrote: 89 pointsSame same, which is a good thing. |
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