NobleRottersSydney - Oz cabernet blind (Verde, East Sydney): {cork, 12%} (Glenn) A repeat from last November, this bottle is consistent with the previous example. How a wine apparently made entirely from chardonnay can smell to much like strawberries beats me. Still, there it is. There are crisp apple flavours to accompany the strawberries on the light-medium-bodied palate, an obvious lack of yeasty characters, fairly lively bubbles and a medium length dry finish. Simple but pleasant wine which should hold a few years easily.
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NobleRottersSydney - 1996 South Aust reds (Alio's, Surry Hills): [cork, 12.4%]{Glenn} Fizz from Margaret River is certainly a novelty. Bright, youthful nose of granny smith apples; which crisply manifest themselves on the palate too. A light-medium body doesn’t preclude rather aggressive, if small bubbles. It’s extraordinarily fresh, but this does rather come at the expense of complexity; there’s not a lot of bottle-ferment character with a 2010 vintage, obviously. A wine to drink in the harsh summer sun of Western Australia, not a wood-panelled dining room.
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9/2/2013 - graemeg wrote:
NobleRottersSydney - Oz cabernet blind (Verde, East Sydney): {cork, 12%} (Glenn) A repeat from last November, this bottle is consistent with the previous example. How a wine apparently made entirely from chardonnay can smell to much like strawberries beats me. Still, there it is. There are crisp apple flavours to accompany the strawberries on the light-medium-bodied palate, an obvious lack of yeasty characters, fairly lively bubbles and a medium length dry finish. Simple but pleasant wine which should hold a few years easily.
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11/5/2012 - graemeg wrote:
NobleRottersSydney - 1996 South Aust reds (Alio's, Surry Hills): [cork, 12.4%]{Glenn} Fizz from Margaret River is certainly a novelty. Bright, youthful nose of granny smith apples; which crisply manifest themselves on the palate too. A light-medium body doesn’t preclude rather aggressive, if small bubbles. It’s extraordinarily fresh, but this does rather come at the expense of complexity; there’s not a lot of bottle-ferment character with a 2010 vintage, obviously. A wine to drink in the harsh summer sun of Western Australia, not a wood-panelled dining room.
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