Community Tasting Notes 18

• irish87 wrote: flawed

  October 1, 2022 - Corked. Nothing like aging a wine for 25 years and finding out its been ruined for 25 years. Oh well.

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• coterotie Likes this wine: 90 points

  June 24, 2022 - Went out to a local restaurant, (Hummingbird Way) with my wife, son and his girlfriend.
  I started with a Sazerac, then we shared a bottle of champagne off the list. Threw this one in the ice bucket for about 10 minutes as it's just plain hot down here and the a/c's can't keep up and this one was out of the cellar for a few days.
  1997 Trevor Jones Wild Witch. The top of the bottle had a chip from a fall, but still remained intact and sealed. Cork in great shape only minimal staining. This wine was always a bit more restrained than the 1996 which lived up to the Wild Witch name. It has smooth round tannins a mellow dark fruit and a mineral quality that one gets with Shiraz. There are some asian spices along with that minerality that gives the wine a very savory finish. Very much enjoyed by everyone at the table.
  Dishes were a salad of Brillat de Savarin, golden beets, bresaola. A soup of morels, squash blossoms and lump crab.
  Then a whole fried red snapper with curry and peanuts, Blackened Amberjack and Jambalaya, Rabbit with grits and ratatouille and a 24 oz dry aged NY Strip with roasted root vegetables.

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• ShadowIII Likes this wine: 90 points

  August 2, 2021 - Have had this wine a number of times, starting to fade, cedar, still some fruit, currants, mint, more like an old cab than a shiraz

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• Burgundy Al wrote: 87 points

  February 3, 2018 - Another Saturday at Chevalier...Mostly Blind (Chicago, IL): Tasted blind. Jammy start, but still nicely fresh. Softer middle, easy landing. Not much nuance, but fun.

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• Nanda wrote: 88 points

  February 3, 2018 - Blind Syrahs at Chevalier (Chicago, IL): Served blind. Once upon a time, this was totally my cup of tea. Aromas of polished ripe black fruit with some black pepper. Ripe and round on the palate with good fresh acids. And some interesting meat and pepper notes. But the fruit is just a bit too sweet and candied. New world, for sure.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1997
• Type Red
• Producer Trevor Jones
• Varietal Shiraz
• Designation Wild Witch Reserve Dry Grown
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Australia
• Region South Australia
• SubRegion Barossa
• Appellation Barossa Valley

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• In Cellars 65 (49%)
• Consumed 67 (51%)

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