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Community Tasting Notes 48
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Philckw Likes this wine: 92 points
February 11, 2024 - Deep garnet, beautiful nose of ripe cherries, berries, plums, vanilla and some tobacco? Palate, nicely rounded, tannins in control and nice long finish! I think this still has quite a few more years to it so don’t rush to drink it!
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Goldstone Likes this wine: 91 points
May 9, 2023 - Tuesday Dinner at Crown Wine Cellars, Hong Kong (The Conservatory, Crown Wine Cellars, 18 Deep Water Bay Drive, Shouson Hill, Hong Kong): Splash decanted then drank over beautiful artisanal strong French cheese. Deep purple red semi-opaque colour. Beautiful nose, boysenberry and some oaky spicy classic Clare Valley Shiraz character. Quite rounded and well integrated on the palate. Satisfying, in a way that puts a nice calm smile on your face. This has lots of time on its side but is already ready to go. Bought on release as part of a quest to find 'the next Grange', it is finally entering its early drinking window. However, I would recommend a much longer decant, maybe double-decant overnight. 91 easy.
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Old Joe Likes this wine: 90 points
May 5, 2022 - Needs a little time to open up but a smooth wine
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Goldstone Likes this wine: 88 points
March 27, 2022 - From a case bought on release as part of a 'Hunt for the Next Grange' research project that Runny and I did. 8-hour decant overnight. Very deep purple/ red fully opaque colour. Nose is almost totally muted and shut down…. almost earth to Mars? Very sour taste. I remain convinced that this will become a ‘new Grange’ sometime in its future but for now I would ignore and re-visit in 7-10 years’ time. 88 with 95pts upside.
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March 20, 2022 - Mistake
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Wine Definition
- Vintage 2005
- Type Red
- Producer Kilikanoon
- Varietal Shiraz
- Designation Oracle
- Vineyard n/a
- Country Australia
- Region South Australia
- SubRegion Mount Lofty Ranges
- Appellation Clare Valley
- UPC Code 9329666006036
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
- In Cellars 415 (47%)
- Consumed 465 (53%)
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- ProducerKilikanoon
- VarietyShiraz
- CountryAustralia
- RegionSouth Australia
- SubRegionMount Lofty Ranges
- AppellationClare Valley
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