Nose of leather and some fruit, colour medium red with some bricking, quite tannic, bitty acid, still some fruit flavours. Medium finish and quite high alcohol. Drinkable but probably past its best. Hang on.. On day 3 it has become a completely different wine! Alcohol blown off, acids subdued to a good level, complexity of the palate emerge. Re-rated to 92 pts.
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NobleRottersSydney - Margaret River 5-star wineries (Alio's, Surry Hills): [cork, 14.5%] {Kim} Who’d have though we’d have so much shiraz on a Margaret River night? This is the first wine that seems to have obviously fallen over. Lean aged nose, all white pepper, eucalypt, earth, oak; it’s the aromatic version of varicose veins. The palate is grittily tannic, with biting acid; it’s medium-bodied but overall rather skeletal, with a spectrum of peppery flavours. Not obviously unripe (hard to reconcile with 14.5% alcohol) but must have been pretty marginal one way or another, because although drinkable it’s rather skeletal now, with a rather short finish. Past its best.
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7/11/2013 - Bernard Shen wrote: 92 Points
Nose of leather and some fruit, colour medium red with some bricking, quite tannic, bitty acid, still some fruit flavours. Medium finish and quite high alcohol. Drinkable but probably past its best. Hang on.. On day 3 it has become a completely different wine! Alcohol blown off, acids subdued to a good level, complexity of the palate emerge. Re-rated to 92 pts.
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9/12/2011 - graemeg wrote:
NobleRottersSydney - Margaret River 5-star wineries (Alio's, Surry Hills): [cork, 14.5%] {Kim} Who’d have though we’d have so much shiraz on a Margaret River night? This is the first wine that seems to have obviously fallen over. Lean aged nose, all white pepper, eucalypt, earth, oak; it’s the aromatic version of varicose veins. The palate is grittily tannic, with biting acid; it’s medium-bodied but overall rather skeletal, with a spectrum of peppery flavours. Not obviously unripe (hard to reconcile with 14.5% alcohol) but must have been pretty marginal one way or another, because although drinkable it’s rather skeletal now, with a rather short finish. Past its best.
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