2008 Clarendon Hills Astralis

Community Tasting Notes (55) Avg Score: 93.8 points

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  12/28/2023 - EricLi wrote: 94 Points

  Feel it just entered its drinking window. Would need a little time to fully open up. Unfortunately we consumed it too fast. But from what we could sense in a small window, this is an excellent wine worthing cellaring and savoring on special occasions.

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  8/31/2023 - mflesh wrote: 93 Points

  This bottle had a little bit of funk upon opening, but the bones were definitely there. Allowed this one to chill out a bit on the table and figure its stuff out. After about 15 minutes, this one had blown off a lot. Poured a dark black to the glass. The nose was roasted black fruit...black plums, charred blackberries. The wine was medium ++ bodied, showing smoky black figs, black plums, tar, pipe tobacco, herbal funk, and finished with a lot of chewy toasted oak tannins that had softened and showed great integration here. Honestly I think this wine is on the back end of the hill. Nowhere near being "in the gutter" but is QUITE mature. Went well with redfish, elk, spinach and oysters, and jalapeno grits. IMO if you have a bunch of this, then 1. you're lucky; 2. start drinking on 'em with a 20 minute decant. In a nice place right now!!

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  4/16/2023 - chatters wrote:

  Dave's 60th lunch (Porcine, Oxford Street): Decanted. Ripe, concentrated, non-delineated black fruits, plenty of sweet spice plums, slight prunes, a little alcohol prickle lends a peppery note. Juicy, dense, tends to the jammy showing black fruits but less prune on the palate, tight and drying tannins, slightly grainy tannins, long, still quite primary. Balanced, probably a little on the large side for me but very good with pigs head.

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  2/11/2023 - jlgnml Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Big and bold, deep color, characteristic flavors of an Aussie Shiraz with out the heavy jammy palate feel. Good length on the finish. Drink or hold.

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  8/6/2022 - Hugh Donnelly wrote:

  Sublime shiraz could go 5 more years tannins gone though

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