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• Alexander Smith Likes this wine: 97 points

  March 25, 2024 - Incredibly balanced wine, wonderful dark lush black fruits, cassis, crushed violets, unsmoked tobacco, cedar, savoury spices, bay leaves and forest pine needles. The palate is impeccably structured with dark lush fruit and savoury spices filling the palate, there is this incredible tannin quality along with energy and persistence, the mid-palate layered and textured, you don’t need to work with this wine it works for you, everything is there coming together, this is really just a baby. I only had one bottle so had to try it but wow such a fantastic producer.97+++

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• Blackart wrote:

  October 20, 2023 - Tasted 19/10/23. Nose and taste very connected. Fine tannins. Great balance. Good finish. Excellent and will be another 10+ years

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• marcellonegro wrote: 95 points

  October 14, 2023 - Pronounced nose of blackberry, cassis, oak spice
  Flavours of black fruit, black plum, rich black plum, tobacco, cedar
  Great balance and intensity, very good length. Amazing complexity and will get better with age

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• aarone3333 wrote:

  August 26, 2023 - Bright, intense garnet/ crimson. Really fresh nose, red fruits, savoury and really bright, leafy intensity, perfectly ripened, no discernible oak.
  Palate follows. Very concentrated, but savoury and crisp. Immaculate balance, really emphasises how good Yarra Valley cab belnds are when on song. Silky and long, mouthfilling intensity, but finishes clean, fine tannins.
  Just superb!

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• WineTally Likes this wine:

  October 6, 2022 - 44% Cabernet sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 16% Cabernet franc, 6% Malbec, 4% Petit verdot
  from vineyard planted in 1971 on sandy clay loams, dry farmed
  organically.
  Fermented on skins for 14 days.
  Aged 22 months: 25% in large format oak (1500L or larger),
  30% in new barriques (225L), rest in 2-5 year old barriques.
  Bottled with minimal fining and filtration.
  13.3% Abv.
  Background: Founded by John and Marli Middleton in 1971.
  Owners: David and Victoria Middleton, with children Claire, Sam and Hugh.
  Winemaker: Sam Middleton
  
  A(ccuracy)=2: Med deep garnet. Mellow supple blend.
  B(alance)=3: Rich fruit with fine structure.
  C(omplexity)=2: Dark berries, plum, licorice, earth.
  D(epth)=2: Round mouthfeel. Full length and persistent finish.
  
  Wine Tally Score [2,3,2,2] = 9/10
  
  Long and even cool climate Cab blend.
  
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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2015
• Type Red
• Producer Mount Mary
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation Quintet
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Australia
• Region Victoria
• SubRegion Port Phillip
• Appellation Yarra Valley

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• In Cellars 1,396 (86%)
• Consumed 229 (14%)

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