NSW All Stars (Prince Sydney, 40 Hansard Street): Medium minus intensity aromas of a touch of minerality, green apple peaks out from behind lemon and lime, a little buttery toasty note with time. Medium plus intensity acidity, chalky minerality, juicy, fleshy, long, textured burr, fruit muted; showing apple and some fresh grassy notes here as well. Yumish
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{screwcap, 11.5%} Pale straw. Hard to make much of this, to be honest. Still absurdly young it's mostly just a grassy impression, not even especially acidic. Light-bodied, maybe with a bit of rockmelon or faint hint of lime juice. The palate is quite even, but also faint, and the finish dies away leaving fleeting hints of texture without much flavour. It's so neutral you wonder if it'll ever evolve; will take twenty years at least. It was widely acclaimed as a very good vintage for reds; not sure that the top years for reds & whites ever coincide much. Still no real point in drinking it now!
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5/18/2024 - PT insurgent wrote:
Really nice wine, lots of nuance for 11.5% alc. Citrus, sherbet, hints of mineral.
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5/11/2024 - chatters wrote:
NSW All Stars (Prince Sydney, 40 Hansard Street): Medium minus intensity aromas of a touch of minerality, green apple peaks out from behind lemon and lime, a little buttery toasty note with time. Medium plus intensity acidity, chalky minerality, juicy, fleshy, long, textured burr, fruit muted; showing apple and some fresh grassy notes here as well. Yumish
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4/5/2024 - ProfByron Likes this wine: 92 Points
I enjoyed this very much. Youthful but fine, some lovely vanilla flavour buried under the lime.
Will live a very long life.
11.5%, screwcap.
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3/7/2024 - graemeg wrote:
{screwcap, 11.5%} Pale straw. Hard to make much of this, to be honest. Still absurdly young it's mostly just a grassy impression, not even especially acidic. Light-bodied, maybe with a bit of rockmelon or faint hint of lime juice. The palate is quite even, but also faint, and the finish dies away leaving fleeting hints of texture without much flavour. It's so neutral you wonder if it'll ever evolve; will take twenty years at least. It was widely acclaimed as a very good vintage for reds; not sure that the top years for reds & whites ever coincide much. Still no real point in drinking it now!
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1/30/2024 - kostaslonis Likes this wine:
Australia Trade Tasting (Lindley Hall, Royal Horticultural Halls): tight, mineral, piercing nose, showing sme fruit in the back, palate same, austere with a touch more fruit in palate, lemon, lean, long finish
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