7/31/2021 - Avid Wino wrote:

Balance and the beginnings of the body that you know will develop with time. Florals, fruit salad, touch of almond meal. Ample length. Best young Tahbilk Marsanne in memory for me. Wonder if I’ve scored others higher. If so, so be it. Neither memory or scoring are precision tools.

6/14/2021 - Avid Wino wrote:

Black and blue fruits, meat juices, coffee grounds, vanilla and chocolate. Enjoyable especially with tonight’s dinner of roast beef, but feels almost past it, a bit lifeless. I’ve had many better Bin 28s.

12/31/2019 - Avid Wino wrote:

An(other) excellent vintage... enjoyed this very much. Label note nails the particulars for now “bright jasmine and lemon scents on a juicy palate of tropical and citrus fruits underscored by a taut minerality” though of course this will develop in to something other and equally excellent given a few years rest in a cool dark place.

7/26/2020 - Avid Wino wrote:

Opened all oaky and tart. Not happy. With an hour of air it launched toward the stratosphere and improved hour by hour til all gone after four. Black chary earth, red berries and currants, cherry and sour cherry, leather, plus magically a little of the pink roses and lavender from the garden of my childhood home. Fine charcoal and black tea tannin. Heaps of length. Tempted to score this higher but started the night at 89. Wonderful by the end.

2/19/2010 - Avid Wino wrote:

Powerful full throttle luscious fruity nose and taste, glorious deep rich colour, fabulous match for our lunch of venison casseroled in red wine (cab merlot) and chocolate sauce. In fact if I was scoring the combination of the durif and food, rather than just the wine itself, I'd have to give it 95+. Somewhat unbelievably, the casserole almost overpowered the durif, wrestling for the attention of my tastebuds throughout the meal, with the wine and bambi both doing themselves proud. Must get another bottle and try with roast beef, plus a few more for the cellar, as this drop has many years of improvement ahead of it.

12/9/2019 - Avid Wino wrote:

Cherry, other dark fruits, spice, savouriness, a lick of tannin, and balancing line of fresh cleansing acidity as per startinoz’s comment. Astounding value, same as it ever was, year in, year out. None the worse for having a slight chill knocked in to it on a stinking hot summer day.

9/1/2019 - Avid Wino wrote:

Ripe dark berries, blackcurrant. A little mint more to spearmint, and cigar box. Drying dusty tannin. Plenty of length. Notably the ripest Wynns black label that I can remember tasting, and in my view slightly the lesser for it. Tasted over 4 hours and didn’t change much though final glass the best... Reckon 10 years is not enough for these black labels, maybe 12-15+?

3/31/2019 - Avid Wino wrote:

Outstanding, from the instant the bottle is poured in to the decanter and the aroma bursts forth, to the finish on the final drop. As per my note from 2017. 95 again. Won't touch another one of these for a decade, as have only two left. Happily the Hunter and Mount Pleasant have had some more cracking vintages since 2014, so I can enjoy and stock up on some younger Rosehills.

2/1/2019 - Avid Wino wrote:

Nastiest wine I’ve tasted in memory, and I’ve downed a few bottles in my time. My wife said “tastes like wine from an itinerants goon bag which had been stored in some bushes” and claims to speak from personal experience. Maybe (hopefully) a bad bottle? Screwcap fwiw.

8/23/2013 - Avid Wino wrote:

As per my note from almost two years ago. Still drinking superbly from a pop and pour.

10/16/2015 - Avid Wino wrote:

Barossa shiraz, but with the dial at about 7 instead of 11. By which I mean, relatively subtle. A good thing in some ways but ..... anyway. Plums, cherries, blackberry. Baking spice, black pepper. Smooth, dusty tannins, a little hot. Not much nose or length. Couldn't really get a grip on this, one of those nights, possibly not a fair score, started at 90 and went down as the evening progressed. Slick but lacking depth.

6/5/2015 - Avid Wino wrote:

In short, classic South Australian shiraz. Plums, some raspberry, milk chocolate, twist of pepper. Dark and brooding savoury elements lurking underneath hold great promise for the future, but worth cracking one open now for my tastes. Dusty tannin, well balanced by fresh acidity, alcohol at 14.5% but doesn't stick out. Length more than ample. Probably being a points miser here. Great stuff.