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2006 Mollydooker Shiraz Carnival of Love
12/21/2015 - zuluvino Likes this wine: 97 Points
Stunning in its velvety flavor profile which has developed very well since bottling. After release, I had a bottle just to set a baseline. It was a rough and rugged monster that had no business being anywhere near a glass. I told people it was like eating blackberry jam that had been sitting on a railroad tie on a hot day. It was just so rich, smokey, and bursting with fruit.
I opened the bottle at a family gathering where most of us knew the name, year, and bottle very well. We all just sat silently with our first few sips because this wine was just something that demanded it. We all were just giving it our full attention and it was well deserved. The fruit was still there but everything around it had developed into an elegant woman dressed for a ball instead of teen looking for a punk rave.
I don't usually get into the exercise of describing the flavors because it's been done to death but - suffice to say that this wine is every bit worth the price I paid. It is drinking perfectly right now and should continue for another year or two but if you have some you need to pull the corks on these now as the flavors are so hedonistically perfect that it won't pay to wait any longer. I will be doing exactly that with the remainder of mine.
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2006 Mollydooker Enchanted Path
7/13/2015 - zuluvino Likes this wine: 95 Points
The wine is entering peak and has melded together into a dark fruit melange with a strong backbone of aged pipe tobacco. It is much, much more supple and sexy than when it was released. I had one bottle in '08 or '09 right after release and it tasted like a mixed berry jam that had been scraped off a railroad tie. It was a beast of intense, immature flavor. I cannot tell you how spectacular this wine is drinking right now. I just got off another site where I bought the remaining 4 bottles that they, incredibly, still had in stock. The gentleman's review before mine (that I read after I posted) is spot on with my review. This is good wine, folks, deserving of a score way north of a 90. If you are lucky enough to have some start putting it on your list of wines to drink with other wine addicts.
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2012 Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon 40th Anniversary
7/4/2015 - zuluvino Likes this wine: 95 Points
Here's another example of wines that are under-rated by members at large on this site and why I always add 2 or 3 points to the average rating. This is a great wine that is way too young right now. It is surprising soft and silky but the flavors are separated and racy. Color is a bright violet and the nose explodes out of the glass which should tell people a lot. I sacrificed one bottle out of a case to get a baseline of it's development as it ages. Nowhere near drinkable. It should get roughly 4 years time if you want to start drinking but I can understand if you can't wait. I drank this the same evening as an '06 Mollly Dooker Enchanted Path which was stunning (an easy 96) and showed why many wine lovers need to assess bottles at maturity instead of throwing out a score as it's tasting now that is not a true assessment of its potential.
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