My 28th and last bottle and I'm still enamored with this wine. First bottle opened was back on 7/3/06. Still drinking beautifully with plum notes and soft tannins and still throwing off fine sediment.
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This 2004 is ageing gracefully, with top notes of cinnamon and mace, massive muscular power in the middle and a peppery finish. Excellent. Still years of pleasure left in it.
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So it has been 12 months since I gave this wine a small belting. I checked it over the hours as it sat in the decanter and tannin structure moved from puckering to dry to starting to soften and then rounding out. Finish improved in length as time went on. Being a Sunday night 6 hrs in I gave up and started drinking, dont want to be too hungover for Monday at the pickle factory. Anyway, its appearance does show typical age characteristics but it is still remarkably young for its age and price point. McLaren Vale purple fruit over herbaceous, over time it moved from savoury to slightly lush, Viognier gives it that sparkle of elegance, however it is still quite drying yet strangely enjoyable. Have warmed to this immensely and am a tad annoyed I have only one more left. Truely one of our better steals at the approx RRP $30. Try again mid 2018, more time needed. Almost a 92....
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2/2/2018 - RichardZula Likes this wine:
Delicious, intense bouquet, ink dark, resolved tannins, intense dark fruit, mint leaves, what a great wine to age.
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12/29/2017 - Tarpon222 wrote: 89 Points
Not very interesting. Probably should have consumed a few years ago.
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10/15/2017 - NuTricks wrote: 92 Points
My 28th and last bottle and I'm still enamored with this wine. First bottle opened was back on 7/3/06. Still drinking beautifully with plum notes and soft tannins and still throwing off fine sediment.
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6/10/2017 - ricard Likes this wine: 92 Points
This 2004 is ageing gracefully, with top notes of cinnamon and mace, massive muscular power in the middle and a peppery finish. Excellent. Still years of pleasure left in it.
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1/22/2017 - red.red.vino wrote: 91 Points
So it has been 12 months since I gave this wine a small belting. I checked it over the hours as it sat in the decanter and tannin structure moved from puckering to dry to starting to soften and then rounding out. Finish improved in length as time went on. Being a Sunday night 6 hrs in I gave up and started drinking, dont want to be too hungover for Monday at the pickle factory.
Anyway, its appearance does show typical age characteristics but it is still remarkably young for its age and price point. McLaren Vale purple fruit over herbaceous, over time it moved from savoury to slightly lush, Viognier gives it that sparkle of elegance, however it is still quite drying yet strangely enjoyable. Have warmed to this immensely and am a tad annoyed I have only one more left. Truely one of our better steals at the approx RRP $30. Try again mid 2018, more time needed. Almost a 92....
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