2015 Andrew Thomas Wines Shiraz Elenay Barrel Selection

Community Tasting Notes (5) Median Score: 86 points

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  11/3/2019 - graemeg wrote:

  Drinking up, per previous note. Still a little bilgey, with a short finish. Decent save from a terrible year. Lacks character and definition. And length!

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  8/22/2019 - Bsmith457 wrote: 91 Points

  Medium colour, dark crimson, light hue. Light aroma, almost indistinct, some light pepper and oak. Plum, Blackberry, dark chocolate, spice. Medium body, short finish, prior to decanting the finish was halfway along the tongue. Improves dramatically after decanting, decent flavour and finish. Pleasant wine, I can imagine with would be a good wine in a good vintage.

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  8/11/2019 - graemeg wrote:

  {screwcap, 13.8%} I drank another of these, out of curiosity. A dead ringer for the first; it's a loose-knit, open, slightly rustic and almost rotting wine, betraying a great deal of its wet-vintage origin in the compost-like character of the strawberry-tinged flavours. Soft gravelly tannins, medium acid. What the Bdx trade might have called a restaurant vintage. ALmost medium weight, shortish finish. OK to drink, yes, but not to cellar.

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  7/5/2019 - graemeg wrote:

  {screwcap, 13.8%} I wondered about making this semi-prestige label in such a rotten vintage, but here it is. The nose does have a faintly bilgey quality; rotting fruit, soft blackberries and plums. Not hugely intense aromas on opening. The palate has strong spicy flavours, but despite an initial richness they’re rather hollow. Gentle dusty tannins, rustic, stewed black flavours, low/medium acid. No more than medium weight. A chewy astringent finish, but not derived from oak, yet still on the short side. Best over the next 3 years I reckon. Something of a vintage victim, but not a total disaster.

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  2/18/2018 - pclin wrote: 86 Points

  Woods are too dominant now to be of real interest. Good length and complexity with slight heat at finish. Would oaks be completely integrated with aging?

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