2012 Tyrrell's Vat 94 Dry Red

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 85 points

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  7/9/2022 - hussmith-tastes Likes this wine: 94 Points

  I took note of the other comments and left it for 10 years. Tasting great now. So many flavours from who knows where, but who cares.
  It feels like it’s just hitting its straps so will keep the couple I have left for at least another couple of years and see what happens.
  The others I had previously seemed like a decent pizza wine. Now, it’s special.

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  12/24/2015 - fabiopallottini wrote: 85 Points

  Multiregional blend to boost up a terrible Hunter vintage.
  A little Grenache plays a big role on the nose, I guess.
  Poached strawberries, cranberry sauce and quite a floral lift (shiraz?) of rose petals, violet and lilies. Spicy and stalky (some whole bunch fermentation, maybe?): cinnamon, cardamom, clove, white peppercorn, a little black olive pit.
  Palate is medium bodied, with acidity driving flavours through the savoury, almost pungent finish.
  Drink with barbecued meats, pork rashers or semi-hard cheeses.
  Doubtly will gain any complexity in the next year or two.

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  6/22/2015 - jeremy@ wrote: 76 Points

  Green barely any fruit.

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  9/21/2013 - graemeg wrote:

  Tyrrell's New Release Tasting (Darling Harbour, Sydney): {screwcap, 13%, A$20} The best of the salvaged Hunter shiraz (more useable than the mushily-rotten 2008 vintage) was boosted with 10% Malbec and 20% Grenache from McLaren Vale to make this quirky blend. It’s a not-very-intense crimson/garnet. The nose is stewed and stalky, with a note of sweetly rotting strawberries and compost. And a touch of glue or something. The palate is a bit thinner and greener than is comfortable; it’s rather stalky and coarse-textured (especially so after all these white wines). The grenache and malbec seem to bestow a rusticity on this , but they can’t overcome a certain thinness either. I imagine this would lift with food; it’s not unlike a country chianti in some ways. And, in fairness, it’s pretty cheap. But it’s a five year wine, tops.

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