Community Tasting Notes 9

• vinhonotte Likes this wine: 94 points

  November 23, 2019 - Deep ruby with garnet edges, and lots of fine sediments. Pronounced rich rosy twiggy aromas, with cassis and brambles, and even some BBQ spice rub. Tannins have been well resolved, some remnant acids, red florals, cassis, brambles, twigs, grey smokes, grass, wheat. Long floral finish, and cassis. Great!

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• stayhappy21 wrote: 86 points

  August 8, 2014 - Drank this wine over lunch with a bunch of colleagues today.
  
  Wine has an aromatic and powerful nose, with notes of berries and oak. On the palate the chewy tannins were evident, and the wine has a smooth and long finish.
  
  Notes of ripe berries and leather completes the picture, and the presence of sediments gives obvious hints to its age. Wine still holding up well at this age although I do not think it has many more years left to go.

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• Derek Darth Taster wrote: 91 points

  July 18, 2014 - Blind Tasting Friday session at ES (Extra Space): Tasted blind. Pop and poured and drank over 2 hours.
  Appearance is medium intensity garnet colour. Lots of fine and coarse sediments. Legs.
  Initial nose has a bit of barnyard ?brett, earth, and sour red cherry. Very much like an aged Brunello. Developed.
  On the palate, dry, medium acidity, high alcohol, mellow integrated medium+ tannins, medium+ body. Medium+ flavor intensity, with flavours of cheesy barnyard, earth, sour red cherries. Medium+ finish.
  Sadly, it was downhill after the first glass. Cheesy barnyard became a bit more smelly socks, and the sour red cherries became more sour prunes and plums.
  Probably very good quality during its heyday. Now it is tired and past its prime. Drink up now - pop and slurp it down fast. My points are for the 1st glass.

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• clairenclarence wrote: 86 points

  July 18, 2014 - pop n pour.tis bttl way past its prime.evident brett.sweet earth.blend with sour cherry.pretty nice palate in the beginning.but everyting seems to fall apart in an hour time.

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• hkm520240 wrote: 91 points

  July 12, 2013 - 1998 Aussie Showdown dinner (Jade Palace Restaurant): Open for bottle breath since 1 pm and serve as 7th wine. This flight is tasted blind (along with Hill of Grace and Grange).
  Agreed that it will be unfair to put Tahbilk 1860 in this flight against the other 2 super iconic wines, but I thought it may turn out interesting results. After-all it has nothing to lose with price tag just fraction of the other 2.
  Dark garnet with lots of sediments, showing nose of blueberry, cherry and spice. Medium bodied, posses fresh acidity, with cherry, blackberry and subtle smoky oak. It has a nice length with soft tannins, although not as intense as the other 2 and a bit lean too.
  This is good on its own but not when compare to the other 2 heavy weight counterpart. Most taster were able to identify this wine when on blind, no real surprise after all all the wines are having very distinctive style.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1998
• Type Red
• Producer Tahbilk
• Varietal Shiraz
• Designation 1860 Vines
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Australia
• Region Victoria
• SubRegion Central Victoria
• Appellation Nagambie Lakes

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• In Cellars 43 (66%)
• Consumed 22 (34%)

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