Community Tasting Notes 16

• Bandreas wrote:

  January 9, 2024 - This is the "classic" level of the fortified Muscadelle's. tasted at the winery in Rutherglen.
  Greenish/brownish tinge; intense smell of molasses; on the palate the wine tastes quite rich but without being cloying.
  Nice to good

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• graemeg wrote:

  January 27, 2023 - Winery visits Jan 2023; 1/13/2023-1/27/2023 (Vic, Tas): {375ml, screwcap, 17.5%, A$30} Old Vine = ‘Classic’ in Chambers’ speak. I didn’t taste the base ‘Rutherglen’ fortifieds which are half the price of the Old Vine pair. This is a good starting point though. Spirity cold tea aromas, fumey palate. Medium/sweet. Good.

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• chatters wrote:

  March 17, 2022 - Wine Selectors 50 Best Tasting (12 Micron Restaurant, Barangaroo): Toffee, caramel over slight figs, raisins, apple, sweet spice...and the palate is a reflection of the nose with a little bit of coffee and the raisins more to the fore. It's sweet with being lusciously so.

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• chatters wrote:

  July 28, 2020 - Angelica wine club - Old Shit (Strand Cellars, Croydon): Toffee, cream, figs, sweet spice, ripe apple, walnut and a certain saline quality on the nose. Juicy acidity offsets the quite luscious sweetness, the alcohol is more to the fore on the palate and a little almond and almond skin joins the flavours implied by the nose. There is a touch of grip on the mid palate and, with time, orange and raisins start to reveal themselves here. There is an inherent freshness despite the alcohol and the sugar. Good.

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• forceberry wrote: 87 points

  February 19, 2019 - From a bottle bought in 2001. 18% alcohol.
  
  Luminous, developed golden yellow color with a syrupy brown core. The nose feels quite oxidative and very developed with somewhat rancio aromas of oat biscuits, roasted nuts, a little bit of chamomile, light rose hip soup tones, a floral hint of greenouse that has exotic flowers and a fragrant touch of marsh labrador tea. The wine is very sweet, mellow and quite round on the palate with complex, intense and quite unctuous flavors of sugar cane molasses, maple syrup, matl sugar, some honey-and-oats biscuits, light burnt sugar bitterness, a hint of tertiary rancio and a touch of roasted nuts. The alcohol shows a little. Overall the wine is a bit flabby and sticky, thanks to the quite modest acidity, which makes the overall feel somewhat cloying. The finish is cloying sweet, sticky and syrupy with some alcohol warmth and quite long flavors of syrupy molasses, burnt sugar bitterness, some exotic spices, a little bit of caramel, light maple syrup tones, a nutty hint of rancio and a tertiary touch of smoke.
  
  A tasty, complex and pleasant fortified wine, but also one that seems to be on a decline already - I can imagine the wine should be showing some oxidative tones, but this wine feels just slightly too evolved for the style with the notes of rancio and burnt sugar slowly taking over the complexity. Tasting this wine alongside Chambers Rosewood Grand Rutherglen Muscat (bought and put to cellar at the same time) only emphasized how much more developed this wine was in comparison. Overall this wine wasn't too evolved, i.e. enough to mark it as "flawed/oxidized", but I could imagine a younger bottle would've performed better. Priced somewhat according to its quality at 33€ (original retail price was ~15€).

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Wine Definition

• Vintage N.V.
• Type White - Fortified
• Producer Chambers Rosewood
• Varietal Muscadelle
• Designation Old Vine
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Australia
• Region Victoria
• SubRegion North East
• Appellation Rutherglen
• UPC Codes 318549000209, 9318549000100

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• In Cellars 69 (53%)
• Consumed 62 (47%)

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