2009 Thirty Bench Red Thirty Bench Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 87.7 points

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  6/5/2014 - owr Likes this wine: 86 Points

  (Re-Tasted March 2014) ... After that enjoyable feast of the senses I decided to move along to another cool vintage, but this time a little more recent, with a bottle of Thirty Bench 2009 Red. In no sense of the imagination would anyone call the 2009 vintage in Ontario a great red vintage, but Thirty Bench managed to coax something special into their Red. Now, some 5 years from vintage and 2 years from my last tasting of the wine I found the nose to be lacking of fruit but still appealing with its anise, oak, vanilla and spice; this continues on the palate, lots of vanilla and spice, but adds a hint of cassis to the background. The wine is smoothing out nicely with silky tannins and sweet oak, but should not be held too much longer as fruit will start to fade even further. Right now it is a real pleasant drinker for BBQ fare.

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  2/9/2013 - Ottawa Mark Likes this wine: 89 Points

  On opening the wine had a distinct berry flavour and I would even say "jammy" in taste. Letting it open up for about 30 minutes the jamminess dissipated somewhat and smoothed out to a more subtle berry flavour note with toasted oak flavour (but not vanilla) coming through.

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  4/21/2012 - Stewartb132 wrote: 90 Points

  Would but again. 90+ points $24 Canadian - Mostly merlot, along with cabernet franc and cabernet sauvignon,

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  1/16/2012 - walkers wrote:

  Got this wine as an unexpected gift. Have always loved this Red in past years, but I found this one very acidic. The fruit was nice, but a little overpowered by the acid. Tannin was not big, but enough. I would probably hold this for a year or two.

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