2012 Dog Point Vineyard Section 94

Community Tasting Notes (25) Avg Score: 90.4 points

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  6/4/2022 - WycroftForbury wrote: 92 Points

  Bright silvery gold colour. Immediately exciting, sexy, smoky nose of honey, beeswax, orange peel and furniture polish. With air it takes on hints of marmalade and funky pineapple, then green apple skin. Constantly evolving in the glass. Mouth puckering acids up front, with a long, smoky vegetal finish. Flavour lingers, but it’s a little short on body at present. But at 10 years old it’s also so tight, and may loosen up with further age. Length and mid-palate weight improved as the wine warmed a little. This is absolutely classic Section 94. So interesting, and I suspect great with food, perhaps roasted nuts or charcuterie. These Dog Point wines really age impressively. I drank a sublime bottle of the standard stainless steel aged 2011 Dog Point Sauvignon Blanc last year – it was absolutely peaking.

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  12/24/2020 - benjaminpaul wrote: 88 Points

  Rotting veges, passionfruit, canned asparagus, bramble fruit, ripe peach and overripe lemon and sharp lychee with green capsicum. Acidity in spades, very green and a slight softness in the middle. Will keep going.

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  2/8/2020 - gtilley wrote:

  Pungent, in your face sauvignon nose - there is no doubt what this is. An intense wine. Beyond the almost aggressive sauvignon aromatics - tomato leaf, passionfruit, rotting vegetables - it has a certain custardy quality and a hint of caramel on the finish. Not for everyone but I love it - really complex and plenty of life in it.

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  12/1/2019 - il_diavolo wrote: 90 Points

  again unique smoke and herbal nose with strong grapefruit finish. Remains a slightly contentious wine (based on drinking it with many different people) but the core quality is there - even if you may not adore the style and barrel ageing influence

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  10/4/2019 - il_diavolo wrote: 91 Points

  Strong grapefruit, smoke, wood. You have to like SB and the barrel ageing imprint but this is still going strong at age 7. No sign of decline - can hold another couple of years (or more).

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