Sunday lunch with the Wine-Ark boys (Frank's place in Matraville): Muted rock melon, slight ear and sweet spice and the beginnings of what felt like some cork taint. That slight rockiness is on the palate as well. Pear, bit of mid palate burr and plentiful spice. The wine didn't get any corkier over time so I won't mark this as flaw - the cork did crumble a little on opening which may have impacted.
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Coravin fun - Ridge Monte Bello & others (Kennards, Waterloo): From Coravin. Muted and slightly dusty honeyed melon. There is a bit of bottle stink/staleness here as well as some white pepper. On the palate it's impressively rich, honeyed with melon fruit, nashi pear and very slight pear skin bitterness that lifts rather than interferes. Exceedingly long with tiny white pepper hints joining here as well. Very nice indeed.
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3/26/2017 - chatters wrote:
Sunday lunch with the Wine-Ark boys (Frank's place in Matraville): Muted rock melon, slight ear and sweet spice and the beginnings of what felt like some cork taint. That slight rockiness is on the palate as well. Pear, bit of mid palate burr and plentiful spice. The wine didn't get any corkier over time so I won't mark this as flaw - the cork did crumble a little on opening which may have impacted.
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3/3/2017 - chatters wrote:
Coravin fun - Ridge Monte Bello & others (Kennards, Waterloo): From Coravin. Muted and slightly dusty honeyed melon. There is a bit of bottle stink/staleness here as well as some white pepper. On the palate it's impressively rich, honeyed with melon fruit, nashi pear and very slight pear skin bitterness that lifts rather than interferes. Exceedingly long with tiny white pepper hints joining here as well. Very nice indeed.
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