red brick with amber edge, chockmint nose and palate, nice texture, rounded and has length. drank well over two nights. Blackcurrant and dark cherry skins.
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Red fruits. Sour cherry notes with a big dose of American oak. Mature but just so. Fine structure. Somewhat hollow middle where the oak really sticks out. Enjoyable.
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NobleRottersSydney - 1986 revisited (Guillaume at Bennelong): {12%, cork} This is a classy nose; aged herbaceous blackcurrent fruits with cigar/cedar notes. Has a lovely fruit purity to it. The palate is dry, with low-medium acidity, medium chalky tannins, deftly handled oak, and medium intensity length and weight. The faintly herbaceous note adds interest to the palate, the mintyness is the Australian give-away. Finish is quite long as well – this wine has come together nicely. It’s not austere at all; it has a sort of comfy-armchair feel to it, this one – and in the manner of old Australian cabernets, it seems to get sweeter as it sits in the glass. No hurry to finish, and although I don’t think there’s any improvement left here I think it’ll see at least another 5 years quite happily.
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7/10/2021 - phill mz wrote:
red brick with amber edge, chockmint nose and palate, nice texture, rounded and has length. drank well over two nights. Blackcurrant and dark cherry skins.
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12/10/2015 - colin107 wrote: 86 Points
Way past its prime with oxidative notes. Colour reflects it as well.
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10/23/2010 - Burgundy Al wrote:
Another Saturday at Knightsbridge - mostly blind (Northbrook, IL): Blind tasting. Good red fruit and good spice. Enjoyable but somewhat simple and short.
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10/23/2010 - psmith wrote:
Red fruits. Sour cherry notes with a big dose of American oak. Mature but just so. Fine structure. Somewhat hollow middle where the oak really sticks out. Enjoyable.
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8/7/2006 - graemeg wrote:
NobleRottersSydney - 1986 revisited (Guillaume at Bennelong): {12%, cork} This is a classy nose; aged herbaceous blackcurrent fruits with cigar/cedar notes. Has a lovely fruit purity to it. The palate is dry, with low-medium acidity, medium chalky tannins, deftly handled oak, and medium intensity length and weight. The faintly herbaceous note adds interest to the palate, the mintyness is the Australian give-away. Finish is quite long as well – this wine has come together nicely. It’s not austere at all; it has a sort of comfy-armchair feel to it, this one – and in the manner of old Australian cabernets, it seems to get sweeter as it sits in the glass. No hurry to finish, and although I don’t think there’s any improvement left here I think it’ll see at least another 5 years quite happily.
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