Community Tasting Notes 64

• BHRH Likes this wine: 94 points

  June 30, 2023 - PnP - slow ox 45+ minutes in glass. Dark magenta - no orange or tan rim. Big, ripe (but not overdone or glorpy) Shiraz - lots of toasty American oak amongst the blackberry and plum aromas. Complex, dense
  flavors of rich blackberry liqueur, baking spices, with hints of licorice, chocolate and espresso. Really long, luxurious finish. Very low acidity and fully integrated tannins imply this is at peak. A very satisfying and hedonistic wine that should be consumed in the near-term if you're lucky enough to have any!

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• Vintage1961 Likes this wine: 93 points

  March 4, 2023 - Cork broke on extraction. Nose; wow, chocolate, mocha, some slight pirazine, a little eucalypt and ripe plum.
  Palate; very secondary and sweet, very smooth and balanced, finish is quite lingering. There's a real opulence and depth to the flavor on the palate.The flavor is multi layered.
  The bottle we drank was far from past and I think this could still have some years left.
  A lovely aged Barossa shiraz.
  Halliday..."a very good example of the full-on American oaked shiraz style"...........suits me. 93+

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• ProfByron Likes this wine: 94 points

  September 14, 2021 - Tonnes of oak yet it almost seems to lighten the wine, make it more elegant. Like Rioja.
  
  Fabulous and opulent. A real treat.
  
  14.5%, cork.

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• Goldstone Likes this wine: 93 points

  April 3, 2021 - 'Aged Aussies' Dinner (Joseph's Place, Wong Chung Hang, Hong Kong): One of my contributions. Decanted for 2 hours then re-bottled and served 7 hours later. Broken cork. Deep red/purple colour. Nose of burnt getaway car trees, red asphalt, eucalyptus, a nice green capsicum element emerges with time in the glass. quite high-toned. Palate is very rich and deep, stollen cake, fresh raisins, super depth and layers of black and red cherry fruit, some cherry liqueur too. Beautiful fruit. Muscular but quite elegant. Very powerfully long, resonant and reverberant on the finish. Delighted how it has unfurled since I last drank it in 2013 when it was a sullen adolescent. Very long life ahead of it. 93+

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• rgawlowski Likes this wine: 94 points

  May 23, 2020 - Still great, an excellent case of the great ‘98 vintage; still smooth, great fruit, palate and finish; at its peak but not past it.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1998
• Type Red
• Producer Elderton
• Varietal Shiraz
• Designation Single Vineyard
• Vineyard Command
• Country Australia
• Region South Australia
• SubRegion Barossa
• Appellation Barossa
• UPC Codes 2100009120162, 9300633474119, 9314663205094

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• Pending Delivery 2 (0%)
• In Cellars 600 (51%)
• Consumed 573 (49%)

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