2001 Magpie Estate Shiraz The Sack

Community Tasting Notes (4) Median Score: 87 points

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  9/26/2012 - Drinking Trees wrote: 55 Points

  Tastes like green olive paste, with blackcurrants, roast beef and a hint of soy sauce. Concentrated fruit, but it's tired and decayed. Flabby and unstructured; the fruit overwhelms the tannin and acid. Not good, and not showing signs that it was ever good.

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  5/16/2011 - hkm520240 wrote: 88 Points

  Tried 2007 and 2005 Magpie the Sack and both were very nice with big fruits and yet balance. So I wonder how well it cellar and thus pick up this bottle. However I felt a little disappointed.
  Dark brick red, showing some aged on the hues. Developed nose, dried cherry, black currant, leather and chocolaty notes. It has subtle palate, no more big fruits but dried fruits, dried cherry and prunes. A bit disjointed at the mid-palate, short to medium finish and soft tannins. Perhaps due to the storage condition, the wines tasted more aged than what I expected.

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  3/17/2008 - tcfishler wrote: 86 Points

  Very dark garnet red. Oaky notes are mainly coffeeish and smoky, although there's some vanilla there too, as well as blackberries in the background. Some extremely subtle soil and tobacco can be coaxed out of the glass on the second day. For the genre this comes off as quite medium-bodied and even elegant, although it's almost dilute through the late midpalate. A shiraz that's clearly traded its youthful vigor for a more sedate yet decently complex profile.

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  7/16/2006 - Drmelendez wrote: 94 Points

  From Tom for Thui's Birthday

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