Community Tasting Note

graemeg wrote:

Monday, February 9, 2015 - NobleRottersSydney - top 86 Bdx (mostly) with Grange (360 Bar & Dining, Sydney): {cork, 12.5%} (Gordon) Garnet/brick colour. Looks about its age. The nose is straight from the top shelf; aged leather, cigar-box, currant, graphite. Absolutely gorgeous. The palate is good; light/medium-bodied, with aged currant and soft cedary flavours, but it’s a just a fraction hollow and disappointing after the nose was so overwhelmingly impressive. It’s nicely balanced across the palate; the tannins are now softly dusty and only quite lightweight. It seems mean to be anything but effusive with praise; if the wine has any fault it’s that the nose over-promises and the palate under-delivers, relatively speaking. Objectively, though, this is wonderful, although I wouldn’t be holding it longer, lest a faint trace of bitterness on the finish pushes through too much. This is enticingly ready to drink now.

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