Community Tasting Notes 9

• Quarked wrote: 92 points

  April 25, 2024 - This is what I'm hoping for in aged but inexpensive shiraz. Medium-bodied, bright, with good acidity and blue fruits. It's obviously Australian, but really well balanced and picking up secondary flavors. These Aussie wines seem to develop so slowly under screwcap that I could imagine it going another 10+ years. More or less the same over two nights.

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• TallMikeWine Likes this wine: 92 points

  January 11, 2021 - Time to drink up! Still lovely with Barossa fruit, dense, chewy. But I can sense a bit of a fade...after 11 years, why not??? Thanks for the memories, but drink up!

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• TallMikeWine Likes this wine: 93 points

  December 20, 2020 - So very very strange...I had a bottle of this a year ago, and didn't really vibe with it. So I stuck the other few bottles away (gave one away) but tonight decided it was time for another shot at this one. And BOOM!!! Amazing wine. All the richness one expects from a top Shiraz producer. Full extraction, velvety smooth fruit with hints of spice, pepper, and lovely silky tannins on the finish. Perhaps the initial bottle was bad, in a weird way. Anyway. Glad I have another bottle! Gonna drink it soon.

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• joraesque wrote: 90 points

  October 8, 2020 - Medium-full-bodied with medium-fine tannins. First time that I got strong minerality from a McLaren Vale Shiraz; additional notes of blackberries and raspberries, and some faint leather. Relatively high acid, though not high enough to balance out both its RS and a fatty sausage... 14.5% ABV. Best during the first hour.

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• TallMikeWine wrote: 88 points

  December 12, 2018 - It's a 2009, you'd think this wine would be set up and good to go! Well, it's still somewhat of a brute, this wine. Popped and poured, to find a very big, and slightly harsh wine. Fruit hidden among the tannin and what I'd call "steminess". Like the clusters were fermented whole, on stem, with perahaps some of the vines and leaves (and maybe a few rocks and a bit of dirt) in the mix as well. I have a few more of this one, and I'm going to wait another year to see what happens. Decanting may help, but I let this sit for a day and there was little improvement.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2009
• Type Red
• Producer Kilikanoon
• Varietal Shiraz
• Designation Parable
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Australia
• Region South Australia
• SubRegion Fleurieu
• Appellation McLaren Vale
• UPC Code 767749012106

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• In Cellars 40 (45%)
• Consumed 48 (55%)

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