Disappointing! Golden colour. A muted, neutral nose of some stone fruit, granite, perhaps a little pineapple and spice. Not bad on palate, just a little bland, dull and anonymous. Well made and no faults I could see. A suggestion of restrained flavours of pears and other orchard fruit and river stones, fairly rich. Some apparent sweetness but only 7 grams per litre residual sugar. No burn from the 14.5% alcohol. Perhaps a suboptimal bottle due to shop storage (recently purchased)? Uninspiring. On the evidence of this bottle, drink soon.
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1/15/2015 - HowardNZ wrote: 87 Points
Disappointing! Golden colour. A muted, neutral nose of some stone fruit, granite, perhaps a little pineapple and spice. Not bad on palate, just a little bland, dull and anonymous. Well made and no faults I could see. A suggestion of restrained flavours of pears and other orchard fruit and river stones, fairly rich. Some apparent sweetness but only 7 grams per litre residual sugar. No burn from the 14.5% alcohol. Perhaps a suboptimal bottle due to shop storage (recently purchased)? Uninspiring. On the evidence of this bottle, drink soon.
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