Excellent, classic, 10.6% alcohol. Colour: green tinged light golden hues, very clear and bright Bouquet: citrus, some soapy character, nutty Palate: citrus, rich fruit still, some passion fruit and feijoada, full bodied long clean acid finish. amazingly fresh fruit for age. Toasty character indicated on label not evident. December 2016
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Excellent, brilliant and classic, really opens out well after a couple of hours breathing out of the the fridge. 11.6% alc. Colour: dark yellow Bouquet: intense and rich citrus, with honeyed overtones Palate: as bouquet, full bodied, but very fresh, with good long clean acid finish. Interestingly the finish gets longer with breathing. Great mouth feels, with luscious creamy texture. June 2015
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Coravin fun - 2014 Christmas remainders + (My place, parramatta, sydney): Weeping cork. From Coravin. Medium minus intensity aromas of wet socks, slight meaty and musty notes over toast and honey…in the mouth the wine has high intensity searing acidity with very muted flavours of lime, honey, cream but really quite tart and finishes with some soggy dampness. Short and out of condition. Hmm. FLAW on this and the previous basis.
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Christmas Day 2014 (My place, parramatta, sydney): From Coravin. Slight citrus, honey, quite muted, and slight volatile notes. In the mouth the wine is quite sour but with honey notes. I suspect it is past its best and get's more vegetal with time. Not sure what to do with this one.
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Nice aged sem. The wine was deep golden, which indicated some slightly premature ageing, as previous bottles had been much more stable. Still, a delicious wine.
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Flavours of bottled lemon juice from concentrate with hints of honey and toast. Very clean; good acidity. Needed about an hour to open up. Interesting wine.
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Very interesting. Extremely dry and steely. Grassy and Metallic, very clean. Toast and honey, but without a single hint of sweetness. Last tasted Summer 2003
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From Magnum - Youthful and closed, not showing much secondary development as yet. A bit of acid yet to integrate but otherwise good structure. Has a very long life ahead of it in magnum format.
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Classy as always. This bottle perhaps a touch past it's prime with the fruit being a little dull mid-palette. Everything else about this wine was impressive as always though. Toasty and butterscotch on the palette and that nice comforting "pong" on the nose. Probably should have drunk a month or two earlier - but can't complain. Interestingly enough, as with the 95 we had last year, the cork absolutely disintergrated when we tried to open.
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Rather more muted nose than 1997, simpler combination of lemon curd and toast and lacking intensity. Much more happening on the palate, lemon with a creamy edge, has the strong acidity again. Seems a lot simpler than the 1997, but has more impressive length. Finishes quite austere with an almost chalky character.
This was Bruce's favourite and I think there is potential, the wine picked up more weight with some air and may just be in a slightly awkward stage. Also apparently there was a little botrytis in this vintage, but it didn't make itself readily apparent.
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9/16/2023 - NickBri Likes this wine: 95 Points
Very honeyed and spice-racked. Some toastiness and only mild viscosity. Crunchy green apples and complexity. Picked it as a Chardonnay at first...
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11/27/2022 - Oenovice wrote: flawed
Oxidised.
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12/31/2019 - marcellonegro wrote: 90 Points
Honey and concentrated jam.
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11/10/2019 - Geoff7777 wrote:
Great wine. Terrible cork. Fruit completely stripped by TCA. Dead.
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12/19/2015 - rmarkey Likes this wine: 97 Points
Excellent, classic, 10.6% alcohol.
Colour: green tinged light golden hues, very clear and bright
Bouquet: citrus, some soapy character, nutty
Palate: citrus, rich fruit still, some passion fruit and feijoada, full bodied long clean acid finish. amazingly fresh fruit for age. Toasty character indicated on label not evident.
December 2016
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6/13/2015 - rmarkey Likes this wine: 95 Points
Excellent, brilliant and classic, really opens out well after a couple of hours breathing out of the the fridge. 11.6% alc.
Colour: dark yellow
Bouquet: intense and rich citrus, with honeyed overtones
Palate: as bouquet, full bodied, but very fresh, with good long clean acid finish. Interestingly the finish gets longer with breathing. Great mouth feels, with luscious creamy texture.
June 2015
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4/1/2015 - chatters wrote: flawed
Coravin fun - 2014 Christmas remainders + (My place, parramatta, sydney): Weeping cork. From Coravin. Medium minus intensity aromas of wet socks, slight meaty and musty notes over toast and honey…in the mouth the wine has high intensity searing acidity with very muted flavours of lime, honey, cream but really quite tart and finishes with some soggy dampness. Short and out of condition. Hmm. FLAW on this and the previous basis.
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12/25/2014 - chatters wrote:
Christmas Day 2014 (My place, parramatta, sydney): From Coravin. Slight citrus, honey, quite muted, and slight volatile notes. In the mouth the wine is quite sour but with honey notes. I suspect it is past its best and get's more vegetal with time. Not sure what to do with this one.
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7/13/2012 - dan_smee wrote: 92 Points
Nice aged sem. The wine was deep golden, which indicated some slightly premature ageing, as previous bottles had been much more stable. Still, a delicious wine.
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7/13/2011 - saturnaisland wrote: 90 Points
Flavours of bottled lemon juice from concentrate with hints of honey and toast. Very clean; good acidity. Needed about an hour to open up. Interesting wine.
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5/1/2010 - cybergod wrote: 88 Points
Very interesting. Extremely dry and steely. Grassy and Metallic, very clean. Toast and honey, but without a single hint of sweetness. Last tasted Summer 2003
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2/2/2006 - CamWheeler wrote: 89 Points
From Magnum - Youthful and closed, not showing much secondary development as yet. A bit of acid yet to integrate but otherwise good structure. Has a very long life ahead of it in magnum format.
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8/5/2005 - serialmonkey wrote: 91 Points
Classy as always. This bottle perhaps a touch past it's prime with the fruit being a little dull mid-palette. Everything else about this wine was impressive as always though. Toasty and butterscotch on the palette and that nice comforting "pong" on the nose. Probably should have drunk a month or two earlier - but can't complain. Interestingly enough, as with the 95 we had last year, the cork absolutely disintergrated when we tried to open.
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6/14/2005 - Russell Faulkner wrote:
Tyrrell's Vat 1 Vertical (Bentley Hotel, London): Better than 1997, but a similar style,slightly sweeter (was botrytis affected) but only slightly.
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11/10/2004 - TGHaddon wrote:
Rather more muted nose than 1997, simpler combination of lemon curd and toast and lacking intensity. Much more happening on the palate, lemon with a creamy edge, has the strong acidity again. Seems a lot simpler than the 1997, but has more impressive length. Finishes quite austere with an almost chalky character.
This was Bruce's favourite and I think there is potential, the wine picked up more weight with some air and may just be in a slightly awkward stage. Also apparently there was a little botrytis in this vintage, but it didn't make itself readily apparent.
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4/5/2004 - graemeg wrote:
NobleRottersSydney - Hunter Valley (+Steliano Cusmiani, Bimbadgen) (Lucio's, Paddington): Straw-coloured. A very raw green nose compared to the two older wines, this even displays distinct asparagus aromas. Very much at an awkward age, there’s acid a–plenty, but everything’s rather unintegrated at the moment. Good wine, but come back later.
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