2016 Lindeman's Shiraz Bin 50

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 77.8 points

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  10/9/2019 - okicuru12 wrote: 79 Points

  This wine is neither good nor bad but rather a complete bore. Wouldn't complete bore be bad? Yes, but I can get this for less than $4/btl.
  Smooth as silk, not annoyingly sweet, and there is actually some flavor but bore is the forefront characteristic.
  Why do I drink this stuff?
  I want to leave my life's acquisitions to my kids.
  12/17/19:
  I'm reneging on this wine. Even at $3.69/btl it isn't worth it. The Lindemans Pinot Noir is their best cheap wine offering with their Pinot Grigio being drinkable. I'll continue to buy these.

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  2/3/2018 - forceberry wrote: 77 Points

  Tasted blind in VV.
  
  Dense, almost fully opaque purple color. The nose reminds me a lot of this Risifrutti snack product - it's a refrigerated pot of creamy rice porridge and a dollop of blueberry jam. This wine smells like exactly like it: it has this very lactic, creamy overall character with a sweet, underlying tone of jammy dark berries. And perhaps something slightly sappy as well. Not particularly vinous or attractive, if you ask me. The wine is full-bodied, surprisingly intense but also very straightforward and linear on the palate with flavors of boysenberries, ripe plums, some strawberry jam and a hint of vanilla. The high alcohol makes the wine feel rather hot. Structure-wise the wine relies mostly on the medium-to-moderate acidity as the tannins are basically nonexistent here. The finish is warm, short and quite dull with sweet-toned, jammy flavors of boysenberries, blackberries and overripe plums.
  
  A very boring and thoroughly generic piece of mass-produced plonk. I never even though of guessing where this wine came from or which grape variety or varieties it was made of, because it was just so darn generic. Tasted of your red new world plonk you have thirteen in a dozen. Waste of money at 9,99€.

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