2010 Voyager Estate Shiraz

Community Tasting Notes (14) Avg Score: 91 points

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  5/3/2022 - kfjincott Likes this wine: 95 Points

  True peppery. Full mouth fruity shiraz. Balanced , fresh and delicious.
  Drinking well.

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  3/30/2022 - cerobo Likes this wine: 92 Points

  This was initially a little closed and dry on opening but blossomed in the glass with lovely supple fruit and smoothness from ageing. Colour was still deep red, not showing signs of old age. Suspect it will keep for a few years yet.

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  9/4/2021 - Praxis wrote: 90 Points

  Clear dark purple red in appearance with a clear watery edge. Initially the nose was reticent but after 30 minutes of aeration the red and blue fruits began to emerge with lots of meaty, animal characteristics, accented by menthol, cedar and vanilla. The palate is towards the fuller-end of the medium-bodied spectrum and initially quite rich, spicy, with lots of cedar, oak and vanilla characteristics shortly after opening. However, a few hours later in the evening as I re-tasted in for a more detailed assessment, it was quite apparent that this had transformed into a completely different wine. The once spicy, oaky, mentholated fruity richness now tasted greenish, acidic and primary without much of anything else. I’ve never had a wine that turned south like this so quickly before. It’s remarkable how this perfectly delicious wine had completely collapsed and fell apart into this incoherent plonk in just a few hours time. Therefore I decided to rate this based on my earlier impression of it while it was still drinking well. I will confirm tomorrow to see if this just a phase of its development or if it is just deteriorating. My suspicion is, this wine has much more to offer, will wait and see.
  
  Well, well it's the 2nd night and this wine is back to it's old self again. It tasted a lot more soft and balanced than when I initially opened it and it also seemed to be of lighter textured than what I recalled from yesterday. It's really amazing what the wine goes through in terms of its chemical process which goes to show that wine is indeed a living thing which changes with time (and it's reaction to oxidation). The score remains as it is.

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  9/1/2018 - Jimmy_D wrote: 88 Points

  This has more regional than varietal character. It’s a nice enough wine for the price point, it’s not unenjoyable, it’s just a bit anonymous. Haven’t yet come across a Margaret River Shiraz worth noting, which to be honest, is a fool’s errand with so much quality Cabernet on offer.

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  6/19/2016 - chatters wrote:

  Game of Rhones (Carriageworks, Redfern): Closed, muted, meaty black fruit, slight salinity. Fleshy and juicy, almost too acidic, there is a certain sharpness here, meaty and peppery with chalky tannins but lacks a bit of fruit on the palate

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