More shiraz than cabernet. Good structure and decent balance. The cabernet provides a tannin profile that adds to the structure. Acidity is fine and holds the wine together through to a medium long finish.
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Drank over dinner with my wife. Very enjoyable wine, well balanced, good fruit, mellowing tannins and still an amount of acid on the finish. Most of my Doz remains, so I will enjoy it over the next five years
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Pop 'n poured. Still very black-purple. Swirling deep set aroma of mulberry. oak shavings, sawdust, mulberry again. volumes of fruit, blackberry pastille with oak not yet integrated, acid still ok. This has years ahead of it (if I had any more bottles, which I don't) under Stelvin. A good meat wine if a tad fruit mono dimensional. I would give it another 5 years for the cabernet component to get some tertiary complexity notes and the excessive oak to soften and integrate. It certainly ain't going to run out of fruit anytime soon.
Dark crimson purple. Aroma of sawdust, fresh cedar, plum, shrubs, liquorice. Plum, mulberry, blackberry, cocoa. Medium body, smooth Tannin, powdery finish. Fresh fruits, long finish, sweet. Still young, plenty of years ahead.
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I opened a bottle on Saturday and set aside half a bottle for the Sunday night, however we had a family dinner on Sunday night and I opened a fresh bottle (same wine) which was consumed on the night. Tonight I finished the half bottle from Saturday with dinner. This is a luscious wine. The Coonawarra blend of Cabernet and Shiraz, no idea of the breakup, is an Australian benchmark. Full bodied, really well balanced fruit, acid, wood and smooth tannins. Loads of lush fruit, dark berries, plum and delicious length. Drinking really well now, however I expect this will cellar for another decade. If you have some, I recommend you put a bottle to the taste test, you wont be disappointed.
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With decantering, the wine opened up beautifully offering black fruits and spicy undertones that are very appealing on the nose. The palate is well intergrated with a long palate profile with hints of mint and dark chocolate subtetly intertwined with the oak. 1991 Limestone was a favourite for both me and my good friend Alan Wattman who lived in the Hunter and had a prodigious cellar of classic wines. Five cases was just about enough for him. The 2012 version is a worthy part of the lineage and is consistently my favourite Coonawarra red wine.
An abundance of red and dark berries on the bouquet with tones of vanilla and a hint of spice. Not sure whether the Cabernet has been softened off by the shiraz or the shiraz is beefed up by the Cabernet but it certainly has good body with firm tannins. Good mouth feel, light dash of pepper, red and dark berry fruit, oak, tannins and acid with good length. The wine was allowed to breath for an hour and a half then consumed with cold roast leg of lamb. The wine was supposed to last two nights but unfortunately the full bottle seemed to evaporate. Someone liked it so much they kept going back for more. It was me. :).
Plenty of dark fruit on the nose. The body is full with firm tannins. Finish has lashings of vanillin oak, fruit and mint. Edit: needs more time to come into a better balance.
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Dark ruby, medium perfumed aromas of black fruits. Aromas of lack currant, blueberry. The palate is dry, well integrated, long length, medium plus alcohol, medium plus acid, medium tannin, medium plus body. Some chocolate.
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3/20/2024 - Andrew67 wrote:
More shiraz than cabernet. Good structure and decent balance. The cabernet provides a tannin profile that adds to the structure. Acidity is fine and holds the wine together through to a medium long finish.
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1/22/2024 - Pins wrote:
Drank over dinner with my wife. Very enjoyable wine, well balanced, good fruit, mellowing tannins and still an amount of acid on the finish.
Most of my Doz remains, so I will enjoy it over the next five years
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5/22/2021 - crazywineguy Likes this wine: 89 Points
Pop 'n poured. Still very black-purple. Swirling deep set aroma of mulberry. oak shavings, sawdust, mulberry again. volumes of fruit, blackberry pastille with oak not yet integrated, acid still ok. This has years ahead of it (if I had any more bottles, which I don't) under Stelvin. A good meat wine if a tad fruit mono dimensional. I would give it another 5 years for the cabernet component to get some tertiary complexity notes and the excessive oak to soften and integrate. It certainly ain't going to run out of fruit anytime soon.
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9/24/2020 - Bsmith457 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Dark crimson purple. Aroma of sawdust, fresh cedar, plum, shrubs, liquorice. Plum, mulberry, blackberry, cocoa. Medium body, smooth Tannin, powdery finish. Fresh fruits, long finish, sweet. Still young, plenty of years ahead.
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7/26/2020 - nulla wrote: 91 Points
I opened a bottle on Saturday and set aside half a bottle for the Sunday night, however we had a family dinner on Sunday night and I opened a fresh bottle (same wine) which was consumed on the night. Tonight I finished the half bottle from Saturday with dinner.
This is a luscious wine. The Coonawarra blend of Cabernet and Shiraz, no idea of the breakup, is an Australian benchmark. Full bodied, really well balanced fruit, acid, wood and smooth tannins. Loads of lush fruit, dark berries, plum and delicious length. Drinking really well now, however I expect this will cellar for another decade. If you have some, I recommend you put a bottle to the taste test, you wont be disappointed.
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2/22/2019 - cogo44 Likes this wine: 95 Points
With decantering, the wine opened up beautifully offering black fruits and spicy undertones that are very appealing on the nose. The palate is well intergrated with a long palate profile with hints of mint and dark chocolate subtetly intertwined with the oak. 1991 Limestone was a favourite for both me and my good friend Alan Wattman who lived in the Hunter and had a prodigious cellar of classic wines. Five cases was just about enough for him. The 2012 version is a worthy part of the lineage and is consistently my favourite Coonawarra red wine.
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4/21/2018 - nulla Likes this wine: 91 Points
An abundance of red and dark berries on the bouquet with tones of vanilla and a hint of spice. Not sure whether the Cabernet has been softened off by the shiraz or the shiraz is beefed up by the Cabernet but it certainly has good body with firm tannins. Good mouth feel, light dash of pepper, red and dark berry fruit, oak, tannins and acid with good length. The wine was allowed to breath for an hour and a half then consumed with cold roast leg of lamb. The wine was supposed to last two nights but unfortunately the full bottle seemed to evaporate. Someone liked it so much they kept going back for more. It was me. :).
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12/22/2017 - Pano78 Likes this wine: 91 Points
This wine is still young and has many years of collaring ahead of it.
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8/8/2017 - michael_cooke Likes this wine: 90 Points
More shiraz than Cab
Dark, rich, blackberry, spicy
Tannins still quite evident
Time will help, hold
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5/18/2017 - AnonymousCoward Likes this wine: 90 Points
Plenty of dark fruit on the nose. The body is full with firm tannins. Finish has lashings of vanillin oak, fruit and mint. Edit: needs more time to come into a better balance.
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11/6/2016 - AnonymousCoward Likes this wine: 89 Points
Dark & red fruits. Lots of vanillin oak. Tannins still grippy. Nice blend that needs more time IMHO
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7/1/2016 - WineSpat Likes this wine: 91 Points
Dark ruby, medium perfumed aromas of black fruits. Aromas of lack currant, blueberry. The palate is dry, well integrated, long length, medium plus alcohol, medium plus acid, medium tannin, medium plus body. Some chocolate.
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7/2/2015 - Mal Anderson Likes this wine: 95 Points
Rich and dark, perfectly blended. Almost perfect. Spicy and full of fruit.
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