Definitely in its drinking window now although the backbone will keep it going for a fair bit longer!
Not a complex wine, it is just a plain enjoyable medium bodied wine. Very fruit driven affairs in the first half which then disappear and structure became the theme for the second half. Very nice floral and spice nose with a degree of plum and other bright red fruits. Body is as smooth as a baby skin, perhaps too much so. A very good mid-week wine.
Drink now to 8+ years
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Hunter Valley - 6 Cellar Doors (Hunter Valley): {screwcap, 12.5%, A$75} Spices, soft red fruit. Less about fruit than structure; lots of acid, medium/high dusty tannins. The red fruit turns savoury and earthy on the palate. Medium-bodied. Medium/long finish. Good for 15 years to develop some real dimension. Seemed easily the most acidic of the five shirazes I tried at Brokenwood. Spends just 9 months in oak; so it is fruit-driven in the true sense. A block selection from the graveyard vineyard I believe.
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4/24/2023 - tanduybui Likes this wine: 89 Points
Definitely in its drinking window now although the backbone will keep it going for a fair bit longer!
Not a complex wine, it is just a plain enjoyable medium bodied wine. Very fruit driven affairs in the first half which then disappear and structure became the theme for the second half. Very nice floral and spice nose with a degree of plum and other bright red fruits. Body is as smooth as a baby skin, perhaps too much so. A very good mid-week wine.
Drink now to 8+ years
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1/17/2015 - graemeg wrote:
Hunter Valley - 6 Cellar Doors (Hunter Valley): {screwcap, 12.5%, A$75} Spices, soft red fruit. Less about fruit than structure; lots of acid, medium/high dusty tannins. The red fruit turns savoury and earthy on the palate. Medium-bodied. Medium/long finish. Good for 15 years to develop some real dimension. Seemed easily the most acidic of the five shirazes I tried at Brokenwood. Spends just 9 months in oak; so it is fruit-driven in the true sense. A block selection from the graveyard vineyard I believe.
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1/3/2015 - kingkanu wrote:
New Zealand / Australia Trip Dec 2014 / Jan 2015; 12/14/2014-1/8/2015 (Auckland, Martinborough, Christchurch, Sydney, Hunter Valley): 10-20 yr old vines from graveyard
Lovely black currant fruits, fine tannins, really quite lovely
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