2005 Betts & Scholl Shiraz Black Betty

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 92.4 points

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  11/26/2017 - mats13 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Gobs and gobs of purple/dark fruit - stewed plums. Very sweet, more than a little port-like. A little overdone for my taste.

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  8/24/2017 - CamraMaan wrote:

  Cork was perfect. Did not decant, and recorked the bottle after each glass.
  
  Nice deep bouquet on the nose, red fruit. It opened slowly, but had a taste of "past its prime" from beginning until about 2 hours in, albeit in a very drinkable state. Then the funk started to burn off, and it started to come into balance more. These TN's are from 2 hrs in. Its a thick viscous wine that smoothly saturates your tongue with raspberry and bright strawberry notes. Sweet, but far from the typical sweetness of an "Aussie Shiraz"; more tart and sweet than jammy.
  
  Unfortunately this bottle only hit it's stride for about an hour before tailing off, when the earlier "past its prime" taste rose up again. And I can't even say that taste ever fully went away, but it certainly dissipated enough for an hour of pretty good drinking.
  
  My bottle perhaps had some exposure to heat before I got it, but it looked pristine to me, and aside from what simply seems to be the result of age, it drank well enough to assume no heat damage. I think its just at that end stage. If you have any bottles, I think its potentially a risk to wait any longer to pop them.

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  8/17/2017 - bkc1428 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Beautiful notes of fig, hazelnuts, almonds, dessicated raspberries and black cherries, and a finish of Herbes de Provence. Killer value for this! Wish Richard Betts still made this!

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  1/28/2012 - Tim Heaton wrote: flawed

  corked, badly. The person that supplied this wine for our blind tasting was visibly upset, this was to be his salvation and run-away winner of the tasting, or so he thought. Too bad for all, I suppose. One of the people in the group who can not observe TCA took it home to enjoy. After we all gave him a bunch of grief, he said he'd use it to cook with, we knew better.

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  2/7/2009 - bjecjohnson wrote: 94 Points

  Decanted for four hours and served with filet mignon.
  SMELL: Loads of fruit on the nose. Hints of vanilla and small notes of oak. Not overwhelming though. Could spend hours just smelling this beautifully aromatic wine.
  TASTE: Great balance of fruit and alcohol on the wine. Very smooth and the creamy vanilla brings everything together. A great bottle of wine.

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