Community Tasting Note

Wednesday, June 30, 2021 - 18 Quintet
Was decanted a day ahead. This note a day after on reflection.

A quiet and elegant wine, jubey and pure, with masses of complexity and almost unbelievably long finish in its lithe and light to medium frame. Oak is not a feature.

Finest of tannin, energetic acidity, and body all in perfect harmony.

This needs a quiet room, the closer and more time you can spend with this wine the higher the score goes up. Exceptional. Thank you duck.

Drink now to 15 years, it will cellar but it’s so good now you’d hate to miss it peak. Only down side is that this is under cork. The only thing holding it back from a higher score is intensity and body which should come with age.

In Australia there are not rules about what gets planted where. This is a fantastic example of Cabernets made by a Pinot producer- you can see the lightness of touch.

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Comment posted by graemeg:

7/7/2021 1:42:00 AM - I thought it was diam not natural cork, yes? I’m confident with the one but not the other...!
Comment posted by Screwcaps:

7/7/2021 3:14:00 AM - It was decanted ahead of time, so a chance they put a different cork in. Diam are a bugger to reinsert.
Comment posted by Screwcaps:

7/7/2021 3:17:00 AM - Winefront have it listed as cork.
Comment posted by speck:

12/31/2022 4:22:00 PM - I drank this last night. I found your comment about the Pinot producer influence actually clarified my own thoughts. I was disappointed drinking this wine, expectation being what it was. It drank so much like a Pinot - light mouthfeel, pleasant, a tad sweet and I really missed the influence of the Cabernet. I think I expected something more like the Margaret River Bordeaux blends - again, expectation and probably my own inexperience may have diminished the experience for me.
I have 5 more bottles in the cellar and some 2017 as well, I will revisit sooner than later.