1996 Baileys of Glenrowan Shiraz 1920's Block

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 90.3 points

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  8/29/2013 - Rob-Rah Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Dark. Some sediment. A lovely drop of wine! Understated Aussie Shiraz with a strong French accent. Hard to encapsulate. Alcohol a little protuberent. Woody, sweaty bouquet with not too much fruit on it. Nutty. Palate much fruitier and a touch sweet. Cheeky! All very subtle and elegant. Love it! (92-93)

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  10/23/2012 - Rob-Rah wrote: 90 Points

  Less backward than I recall. Popped-and-poured. Some delicacy coming over, approaching the kind of character of the more graceful Cote Rotie, though with a different, more fruited-less-smokey flavour profile. Refreshing (wow, imagine that in a good Aussie Shiraz nowadays!). Acidic, fruity, generous without being anything like flabby. Bordeaux-like weight. The fruit seemed much less gushing than other bottles. Better balance perhaps. Definitely tending toward the Rhone.

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  2/12/2011 - Rob-Rah wrote: 90 Points

  Syrah / Shiraz night: 3-hour decant. Sweat and leather. Smoke and lovely shiraz fruit. Acid quite prominent. The best bottle so far, but the acid a little too prominent...

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  1/10/2010 - Rob-Rah wrote: 90 Points

  I think I have decided not to cellar these excessively further..... two more bottles consumed. Gave these a little more air-time. Both similar. Dark, opaque. Good shiraz flavours and bouquet. Leather, blackberries, sweat. Sweet and well fruited. Lovely style, clearly Australian, though done with an old-fashioned French accent, with some more stern structure making this more "serious". Still not much of the expected "old shiraz" anima/sweatl character. Dry and big palate. Great drink. Perhaps another 10 years might knock the fruit out of this..... hence I'll not worry too much if they all get finished over the next few years. Still remaining a bit ambivalent about the aging of this wine - from memory this is still not much different from a 2-year old bottle. Again, needs lots of air to wake it up.

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  11/24/2009 - Rob-Rah wrote: 89 Points

  Similar to the last bottle tried, though less avowedly backwards. This is restrained, dry, classical in style. More akin to French wines, than butch fruited Aussie Shiraz. Lean, elegantly fruited, with leather, smoke and blackberries. A little backward (positively diffident at first) and tannic stilll, but has a great charm now: better with food. Palate starting to hint at some ganmey aspects, which I like. This will benefit from more years in the cellar and at presenty needs lots of air. Plenty of fruit and the tannin needs to soften more. But this bottle was showing that there is a 90+ wine in here, given time.

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