2004 Hundred Acre Vineyard Shiraz Summer's Block Ancient Way

Community Tasting Notes (47) Avg Score: 93.8 points

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  4/1/2022 - pgrzesik Likes this wine: 94 Points

  This is definitely a big wine and will impress everyone that tries it. I used a Durand to remove the cork - and even with that the cork broke while I was extracting it from the bottle.
  
  We did not decant this and it was ready to go right out of the bottle. What an amazing nose! This is filled with dark fruit, blueberry, blackberry, tar, dark roasted coffee, and a hint of leather. Every time you swirl this wine you get one of the most gorgeous noses I have ever smelled on a wine. First taste - wow! Big, lush, full of flavor. The tannins are almost non existent at this time but it keep rewarding you with layers and layers of fruit and the finish just keeps going. It is perfectly balanced - now don't get me wrong, it is a huge powerful wine but is not over the top. For such a powerful wine it is remarkably restrained. We drank this over 2 hours and it kept evolving over that time with more layers of fruit.
  
  Outstanding wine, have 2 more bottles left and they will last for many more years.

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  6/20/2021 - beej Likes this wine:

  The construct of this wine is impeccable.
  It’s most assuredly amidst a quiet period.
  It’s unctuous and the finish quite lengthy and I hope to wait many years b4 opening the next bottle.
  
  Next evening wine was more quiet on the nose; no bricking and exploding w spice on palate w a reasonably long finish. Sticking w my above comments.

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  5/22/2021 - birdeaux Likes this wine: 93 Points

  I agree with the others who commented that this wine’s bouquet is incredible, the taste less impressive yet still quite good. Like 97 / 92+.
  
  For some reason, I don’t get out the Durand often enough, and the cork was destroyed during extraction with an otherwise perfectly fine Pulltex. Hundred Acre uses long corks and generally they seem high quality... considering that there are several suspect or corked bottles amongst these reviews, perhaps there were “supply chain issues” the year this was bottled (sound familiar in 2021?).
  
  To my palate, this is still in its prime and steady after a 2 hour quadruple decant (see above to remove typical volume of sediment and atypical cork floaters). Mild bricking. Enjoyable.

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  4/21/2021 - peternelson Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Blueberry, tar, black olive, black fruits, fruit bomby, but good acidity in the back end, powerful, a bit over the top, tons of oak. Very well-made and weirdly I liked this in the line-up, but really a bit too much of everything IMHO. My notes say "gooey" and "way big". This got 2nd place overall. Taylor's Steak House Dirty Dozen dinner.

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  8/10/2019 - MC2 Wines wrote:

  Smokin Meat and Serious Syrah 2.0 (Westport, CT): Fitting with the Aussie theme and transitioning into some of the US new world. I always like Jayson's wines. They are hedonistic (as are the SQN), but there's something also very approachable and engaging about them. And while they are intense he seems to achieve some balance. Not over killing the fruit. Some decent acid. This was similar to that. You can't really tell the age (I wonder if one ever will - we have some of the early 2000's Napa versions sleeping), but it is as I said quite approachable and quite drinkable.

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