Community Tasting Notes 5

• peter.mancell@mfg.com.au Likes this wine: 93 points

  January 4, 2024 - Excellent MV Shiraz!

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• Goldstone Likes this wine: 92 points

  April 10, 2023 - Deep, concentrated opaque black-red colour but with a fresh brightness that suggests a younger vintage. Immediate nose of deep cocoa-rich milk chocolate that almost reminds me of ‘Toblerone’ because there in a nougat nuttiness in there too. Espresso coffee undertones too that add a deeper richness. Lots of deep red concentrated berry fruit in the background that shows the c100- year age of the vines. Palate is immediate deep and surprisingly melodious and harmonious matured red and black plum and berry fruit but with a thick chocately and deep-fruited structure of semi-resolved tannin and still lively acidity as a backbone with strong single- espresso coffee bitterness in a good way that adds to the spine. Bitter black cherry emerges too with an hour or two in the glass,including the stones. This is a big wine that leaves an impressive brooding, rolling thunder resonance on the finish. Not for the faint-hearted but I think this is hitting its stride nicely now and has at leasst 5 years or more to improve as it mellows further. 92-93.

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• graemeg wrote:

  March 3, 2021 - NobleRottersSydney - regional Oz shiraz (Fix, St James, Sydney): {cork, 14.5%} [Stephen] Aging garnet. Fumey nose of blackcurrant essence. The palate has super-ripe, extracted, but aging blue fruit flavours; not baked or raisined, but still heavy and extracted. A sybaritic wine, like slumping back into a velvet sofa; low/medium acidity, low chalky tannins, medium weight – would be more but it seems just a little patchy on the palate before the medium length but plush, and slightly warm finish. I’ll bet the alcohol is higher than labelled. A mellow wine ready to drink now.

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• peter.mancell@mfg.com.au wrote: 94 points

  September 11, 2019 - Still a really good McLaren Vale Shiraz.
  Dark as dark colour, interesting spicy nose, oodles of dark fruit, tannins well integrated, touch of earthiness, nice mouth feel, lovely all round flavour and good long finish.
  Glad we have more 😃

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• danielk168 wrote: 90 points

  January 15, 2011 - drank from the bottle, almost juice like at first, over 3 hours it continues to deliver first almost feel like old world wine, delicate and elegant then becoming more fruity and New world like and then classic New World Shiraz

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2006
• Type Red
• Producer Thicker Than Water
• Varietal Shiraz
• Designation Squid Ink
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Australia
• Region South Australia
• SubRegion Fleurieu
• Appellation McLaren Vale
• UPC Code 9329564000532

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• In Cellars 67 (68%)
• Consumed 32 (32%)

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