Community Tasting Note

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Sunday, April 9, 2017 - I described a bottle opened in 2008 as "admirable and powerful but darkly brooding". 9 years on the wine has really opened up and has acquired subtlety and elegance while retaining most of its power. Colour still very opaque with little bricking. Nose well developed with notes of mature blackcurrant tinged red and dark fruit, balsamic and vanilla hints and that touch of noble greenness, which most Oz wines lack, to bring freshness and balance. Palate full/medium bodied with expressive fruit, some earthy minerals, velvety texture and fragrant overlay replaying the aromas from the nose across the whole palate leading to the remainder of some still sombre tannins supporting the finish. When I wrote my earlier TN, I recall an Australian expert saying that 1993 was a weak year in Coonawarra?! Excellent.

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