Community Tasting Note

Goldstone Likes this wine:

Saturday, September 10, 2016 - One of a final few bottles of 3 cases consistently enjoyed over the past 10+ years.....and this vintage just refuses to lie down and die. After 20 bottles of fused corks I finally decided to go first with a 'sommelier's friend' device and it all came out in one piece for the first time ever. Decanted for an hour then drank over 2 hours. Totally translucent faded red velvet colour but still bright and fresh. Nose is immediately a box of red plums left in a wooden case in a garden shed at the end of the summer.....and interesting counterpoint of red/black plum fruit and slightly sweet decay. Palate is immediate bright fresh acidity but very quickly overwhelmed by a Musar-like sweet strawberry incense that demonstrates the fruit fading, but in a lovely controlled way. Mildly reverberant and a bit too heady because the 14% alcohol still pokes through even at the end of the life of Aussie reds. But it gets silkier and more lightly liqueur-like with a couple of hours out of the bottle. A really lovely bottle of wine drank over a home-cooked dried angus steak......this just refuses to die and to let me get on with the 2002 (the subsequent great vintage). Bravo!

Post a Comment / View Goldstone's profile
1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Report Issue (3,778 views)