September 10, 2019 - This wine is surprisingly amazing. Another example of not hanging your hat on Lisa Brown or Robert Parker. According to her the wine was supposed to be drunk within the first six years. This bottle has been laying in my cellar for 13 years untouched. It is an incredible bottle still vibrant, full of dark fruit and very polished tannins.
Could easily be confused for a cote rotie
September 17, 2016 - Great with salmon and salad. withstand years
December 17, 2014 - At pnp quite jammy but with decanting - sediment on cork and in bottle - after an hour became complex and interesting. Garrigue, ripe fruit and medium finish all combine to make this one a winner. Still holding well and able to go another 3 years.
October 3, 2011 - Purchased as a closeout price on the off chance there would be some life left. As such, a very pleasant surprise. A little cloudy with sediment, this would take some port treatment, standing for 24 hours and decanting thereafter. Only the slightest bricking of the color.
A nice clean CdP profile: raspberry, some plum, a little herbal spice, too.
January 9, 2011 - Clean, crisp, smooth, pure fruit, elegant. Almost as if it were an intense Pinot. Very nice.
September 12, 2010 - No tasting notes recorded. A rather straightforward and uneventful bottle.
November 15, 2009 - Wine Salon - November 2009 (Australia) (Chez Jahnke): Very straightforward wine. Smells like freshly poured cherry juice and shows little extra complexity on the nose. The good news is that it didn't get oaked and that the vibrant fruit was preserved well as a result. I can see myself drinking this, although I would add that if I had a choice of CdP vs this, I would choose CdP everytime. At the current price point though, this is actually a decent wine and QPR.
July 6, 2009 - Terroir-istes International - Australia-GSM (Rodwell House): Grenache (60%), Shiraz (20%) and Mataro (20%); this wine shows some development with ripe strawberry, bing cherry and red plum but equally molasses and balsamic tones. Medium to light bodied the wine has a syrupy texture with rather shapeless tannins and a warm generous spike of alcohol. Short to medium finish.
April 15, 2008 - not decanted. unremarkable, uninteresting wine of virtually no distinction. this could be any simple shiraz on the floating continent. makes you almost pine for some oak.
September 26, 2007 - This was surprisingly good. Has really smoothed out over the last few years. Very CDP like.