2010 Meerlust Rubicon

Community Tasting Notes (27) Avg Score: 90.3 points

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  2/4/2024 - Ajallo Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Rich, but primary, nose, black currant at the fore. Palate very nice, again the dark red fruit, the black currant. Lots of other things going on too though. Soft, but present, tannins. A certain level of steely minerality. Really like the wine, but find myself defining it just as much by what it is not. Bordeaux blend, but would not mistake for a Bdx. Laid down for quite a while, but still feels youthful Enjoyable and interesting.

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  2/1/2024 - maranoli Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Intense nose
  Dark Red and black fruits, still almost primary in their intensity despite the age.
  Smokiness, white pepper, hint of sandalwood.
  M acidity
  M tannins
  long Palate but not super long.
  From bottle. This wine has plenty of life left (5+ years)

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  10/31/2022 - Keith Cooper wrote: 85 Points

  Shared with friends, an evening of tasting Meerlust wines. The second of two Rubicon, the first being 2016. We had high expectations of this wine, but it didn't really deliver. Dark blackcurrant. Sadly, there is no longer any fruit on the nose, although one of our group identified the nose as cookies and cream. Still fruit on the palate. But this has lost its structure and is fading. Interesting to taste.

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  9/24/2022 - AURUM Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Great bottle of wine. Dark berries, black current, tobacco, pensil. Very typical Cabernet Sauvignon. Soft, medium plus body, balanced with a touch of vegitative notes. Slightly warmer and softer than Bordeaux. Long smooth finish.

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  1/30/2022 - Praxis wrote: 93 Points

  Dark reddish purple in color with a somewhat muddied in appearance similar to that of unfiltered wines. The nose is a bit restrained with intriguing notes of a rich semi-stewed dark reddish and purplish fruit with vegetal and meaty overtones, spices, worn leather, cedar and very sophisticated old wood smell which evokes a sense of antique chest drawers. The palate is clean, on the lighter side of full-bodied, medium intensity, medium-structured, with good fruit extraction (though not over the top), a bit on the alcoholic side (14.5%) and a slight savoriness which makes this very enticingly good. The flavor components of this rich aged sweet and savory dark fruits, complemented with an abundance of wet forest floor and boiled meat, accented with slight menthol, mild tobacco, sage, well-worn leather, old furniture, wet earth and a pleasant cedary inflection towards the finish. I really think that this 32nd edition of this iconic South African red is really an under-valued gem in terms its quality-price ratio. Although this is a technically classified as a "Bordeaux blend", it has a very new world feel with its own distinct sense of identity without trying to be what it is not. This wine is drinking very well right now at 12 years of age. I've also tried the 2000 and 1995 versions of this wine (years before I began writing taste notes on CT) and all I can say is, this wine has consistently been positive for me.

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