2010 Vasse Felix Cabernet Merlot

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 87.9 points

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  6/7/2018 - Eggy23 Likes this wine:

  Deep red
  Smell vanilla
  Savoury medium intensity flavours. Fruit is mostly gone. Went well with black bean dace.
  Long, long finish with savoury flavours that linger after swallowing
  Tannins kick in late and are soft for Margaret river
  Really enjoyed this one - quite confident it would have been even better in 2 yrs - Pity it was the last bottle
  At 25 bucks, shoulda bought more

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  10/30/2016 - Locki Likes this wine: 85 Points

  Paired it with a smoked beef brisket (20hrs) which may be why the wine was overpowered and so instantly forgettable. It was pleasant but unremarkable. Nothing offensive. Enough acid to balance out the roundness of the merlot. Mid palate was distinctly empty. Distinct lack of oak. Short-medium aftertaste of citrus. I think the strong meat flavours and bourbon BBQ sauce blasted out all the subtleties. Better off sticking with a GSM for BBQ!

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  3/19/2016 - Vintage49 wrote: 88 Points

  Light lees and deep purple. Nose quite shapy with dark fruits. Smooth with mid to back palate. Balance good with a little tannin still there

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  11/9/2014 - jmcmchi wrote: 88 Points

  Attractive nose of blackberry and touches of graphite. Juicy and appealing, mid-long finish

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  3/16/2013 - WineExplorer wrote: 91 Points

  Very pleasantly surprised. Best mix of cab-merlot I have seen in a while. Great blackberry nose & nice finish. Mild mid-palate complexity. It stands well against glazed or bbq smoked meat.

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