2004 Kilikanoon Shiraz Green's Vineyard

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  12/24/2022 - peter.mancell@mfg.com.au Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Excellent Barossa Shiraz.

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  6/11/2022 - Peech Likes this wine: 96 Points

  drank 45 minutes after decanting. Really fragrant and open nose, minty, plenty of cedar, nice and sweet but not quite jammy. Some 30 minutes later this was really beautiful and sexy. Wow! Some coffee emerged a few minutes later. Still got good concentration after more than 3 hours in decanter. Very smooth but not light-bodied, and definitely sweet on the palate. Great wine.

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  1/24/2022 - walkerjfw wrote: 95 Points

  At home with some burgers and roast potatoes. Purchased these bottles as part of an Aussie lot at auction ~2009, no real expectation either way. PnP, drank over 90 minutes.
  
  Inky purple color with some thinning at the edges. Nose showing tart dark fruits, earth, smoke, tobacco. Rich palate of sweet black cherry, savory, blackberry compote, charred earth notes, violet/floral. Sweet dark fruits and smoke through mid palate and finish. Full body, long finish.
  
  Still a beast of a wine after 17+ years! No wilting flower., it killed on this evening..:) this improved in the glass over the time we drank it, really showing in full about 30 minutes in. In a great spot, should last for a while but unlikely to improve much from here. Mild sediment at the bottom, a decant and strain is worth it here. If the prices on CT are correct ($39 in the market), this is an off the charts QPR if you can find it

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  10/28/2021 - peter.mancell@mfg.com.au Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Beautiful example of Barossa Shiraz.
  Glorious soft texture, smooth as silk.
  Lovely dark fruit, only the faintest hint of acidity and tannins fully integrated.
  Supe vino!

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  1/3/2021 - Praxis wrote: 96 Points

  Purplish red with moderate bricking along it’s slightly watery rim. The nose is very aromatic with very refined dark red, blue and black fruits with well integrated oak, tobacco, slight menthol and wet minerality which literally leaps out of the glass. The palate is silky smooth, medium full-bodied, low acidity, and super tamed and very far from the over-extracted and unctuous fruit-bomb as I expected this to be (which might be the case in its earlier stage of development) yet it's still quite a big, well-structured and powerful quintessential Barossa shiraz. The flavor profile is that of rich ripe black cherries, blueberries, blackberries, black plums, seamlessly framed in mild oak, freshly dried tobacco leaves, dried sage, black pepper, with a flash of freshly drained water-soaked granite gravels and a protracted smooth and complex finish. A very delicious and perfectly balanced wine with absolutely no rough edges and residual alcoholic heat at all. This amazing single vineyard bottling that is drinking at it’s peak of perfection now at age 17 and should be able to continue to please for at least another 3 - 5 more years given the right cellaring conditions. I still remember the time when I reluctantly purchased this “final” bottle of the “Greens Vineyard” in the store back in 2006, but now I am certainly glad that I did. A remarkably elegant and memorable wine to start off a hopefully better new year.

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