Classy wine from an excellent year. True definition of a Hunter Shiraz. Still purple hues. Cassis, vanilla and plums flow through to the sweet palate. Soft tannins follow in a beautiful balance. A delight.
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Maurice O'Shea Experience May 2018 (Mount Pleasant, Pokolbin, NSW): The most restrained nose of the four on show today. It’s still tightly wound, albeit approachable, seems to be the norm with Hunter ‘11s across the board. This looks like a sleeper which will outlive most other vintages. Everything is packed into this, just under wraps at the moment. 94+
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Hunter Valley - 6 Cellar Doors (Hunter Valley): {screwcap, 13.5%, A$110} At this stage of the tasting I don’t find the O’Shea all that different to the 1946 Rosehill vines wine, save that perhaps it has an extra degree of malty oak apparent, placing the spicy, earthy fruit just a little more in the background. With the production cut the standard of this wine should lift somewhat; certainly the price has; this has a wonderfully long savoury finish to its near-full-bodied presence and weight. Smooth, polished. Very good indeed. Save for a decade, possible two, as with each of the last four wines in the tasting.
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Nice, big round fruit driven shiraz with good balance. Cinnamon and plum on the nose. Followed by a big round gulp of plum and cherry with a hint of citrus and menthol on the mid palate to round it out, Long finish of pepper and red fruit
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1/3/2024 - Ozmango Likes this wine: 95 Points
Classy wine from an excellent year. True definition of a Hunter Shiraz. Still purple hues. Cassis, vanilla and plums flow through to the sweet palate. Soft tannins follow in a beautiful balance. A delight.
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12/25/2021 - djn63 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Beautiful The wine has a light sweetness to it .liquorice with complexity and length Made me realise why people seek out this wine
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5/20/2018 - Jimmy_D Likes this wine: 94 Points
Maurice O'Shea Experience May 2018 (Mount Pleasant, Pokolbin, NSW): The most restrained nose of the four on show today. It’s still tightly wound, albeit approachable, seems to be the norm with Hunter ‘11s across the board. This looks like a sleeper which will outlive most other vintages. Everything is packed into this, just under wraps at the moment. 94+
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1/17/2015 - graemeg wrote:
Hunter Valley - 6 Cellar Doors (Hunter Valley): {screwcap, 13.5%, A$110} At this stage of the tasting I don’t find the O’Shea all that different to the 1946 Rosehill vines wine, save that perhaps it has an extra degree of malty oak apparent, placing the spicy, earthy fruit just a little more in the background. With the production cut the standard of this wine should lift somewhat; certainly the price has; this has a wonderfully long savoury finish to its near-full-bodied presence and weight. Smooth, polished. Very good indeed. Save for a decade, possible two, as with each of the last four wines in the tasting.
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12/31/2014 - Locki wrote: 91 Points
Nice, big round fruit driven shiraz with good balance. Cinnamon and plum on the nose. Followed by a big round gulp of plum and cherry with a hint of citrus and menthol on the mid palate to round it out, Long finish of pepper and red fruit
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9/6/2013 - JerM wrote:
(Langtons w Mich&Bo) Fresh red fruit, Pong, plums. stiff acidity, lacy textured. Elegant, lithe teenager, with some attitude.
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9/5/2013 - CamWheeler wrote: 92 Points
Langton's Classification Tasting (Carraigeworks, Sydney): Spice, floral, cherry and earth. Palate is well balanced, with good depth and a vibrancy to the fruit that works well against the earthy savouriness.
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