Community Tasting Notes 16

• ephorn wrote: 89 points

  January 18, 2020 - Impenetrable color. Sweet nose with vanilla and creamy fruit and spices. Very hot wine as expected with 18.5 percent alcohol. Decent acidity though. Vanilla Pudding nuance. An experimental wine that shows what happens when the boardaries are exceeded. One glass is enough! Use as after dessert by the fire.

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• Cailles wrote: 85 points

  July 23, 2018 - There‘s plenty of dark ripe fruit and spices, there‘s a well measured acidity to handle all the fruit, there’s a solid round and soft tannin structure but there‘s 18.5% alcohol too. Seems well made but it’s definitely more a liqueur than a red wine. Served chilled enough and with some cheese this might work well... as port wine placeholder.

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• Hilzi Likes this wine: 95 points

  January 28, 2018 - Important note first: I opened the bottle two days before the drinking date and then decanted it three hours before drinking.
  This very solid dose of oxygen really transformed the wine from a dark, alcoholic, porty monster into something very enjoyable. Full bodied (of course!), blueberries, eucalypts, well integrated sweet wood and polished tannins are enough to balance the alcohol. So much going on, but all very balanced. It was a lovely companion to our roast lamb with loads of garlic.
  I'd think peak drinking right now

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• rocknroller wrote:

  December 2, 2017 - Judy Blue's Over the River & Through the Old Wines Event (Judith's House, WI): Very dark purple/red color. PNP, followed a glass over an hour plus. This appears to have run its course, and now the 18.5%ABV and heavy handed wood has hamstrung the weakening blackberry liqueur fruit. Not really something that is drinkable at this point.

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• Crumbled cork wrote: 84 points

  June 1, 2017 - Vanilla, caramel and christmas pudding.
  Almonds and toasted roses.
  
  18.5%, If it can last without the alcohol becoming overbearing it could do very well. But I feel it may overwhelm the wine.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2006
• Type Red
• Producer Greenock Creek
• Varietal Shiraz
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Apricot Block
• Country Australia
• Region South Australia
• SubRegion Barossa
• Appellation Barossa Valley

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• In Cellars 214 (53%)
• Consumed 193 (47%)

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