Community Tasting Note

graemeg wrote:

Monday, May 7, 2012 - NobleRottersSydney - Eighty Bucks Plus (Alio's, Surry Hills): [14.5%, screwcap] {Geoffrey) Six years old and tastes like a barrel sample. Huge and youthful nose of chocolate, liquorice, vanilla bean/oak, and a fumey warmth too. The palate is as big and ripe as you expect, but is much softer in texture than you’d expect; the hugely ripe fruit dominates everything, including medium dusty tannins and rather low acid, rendering the structure dangerously fragile. But there’s no doubting the full-body, and terrific presence on the mid-palate of the saturated blackberry fruit and chocolate flavours, which eventually resolve into a jkind of jam compote. Oak itself isn’t so noticeable; it’s really just a big fruitbomb. Not too sweet, just rich. Almost certainly best before its tenth anniversary, I’d say.

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