1997 Brand's Laira Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 91 points

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  7/24/2016 - rmarkey Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Excellent, classic Brands and Coonawarra. 13% alc.
  Colour: blackberry, browning edges, dark chocolate
  Bouquet: luscious black currant fruit, vanillan oak and mint, earth, spice and capsicum
  Palate: as bouquet, but very earthy, peppery, cedar, full bodied but very smooth and soft tannins, supple, long clean finish, tremendous balance.
  July 2016

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  3/29/2015 - rmarkey Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Excellent classic Coonawarra, 13% alc.
  Colour: deep black berry, bright fruit character still
  Bouquet: mint and eucalyptus, dusty tannins, rich licorice and aniseed, chocolate, smokey, bacon, leather and green tobacco
  Palate: smokey green tobacco, cigar box, capsicum, mint and eucalyptus, leather and soft, full dusty tannins, balanced, remarkably fresh for its age, long finish with clean acid.
  March 2015

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  12/29/2014 - rmarkey Likes this wine: 92 Points

  As with April 2014 note, this is actually the Cabernet Merlot.
  Excellent, with 2 gold medals. 13% alc.
  Colour: black berry, some browning at edges.
  Bouquet: mint pencil shavings and smokey
  Palate: mint, red and black fruit, cherries, good balance and uplifted acid finish, but palate is slightly short.
  December 2014

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  4/25/2014 - rmarkey wrote: 90 Points

  This is actually the Cabernet Merlot.
  Excellent, classic Coonawarra, with a couple of gold medals.
  Colour: black berry, some browning.
  Bouquet: aromatic, with mint, capsicum, black olives and meaty characters.
  Palate: sweet fruit up front, with black cherry, mint and tobacco flavours, fine grained soft tannins, medium body, and dry, long clean finish. Beautifully balanced elegant style. Less depth perhaps than a Wynn's Cabernet Sauvignon.
  April 2014.

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  2/7/2008 - brettreid911 wrote: 84 Points

  Big fruity nose; smells like jam. Mouth drools at prospects.
  
  Unfortunately, taste doesn't match smell. While drinkable it's empty of distinctive flavor. Heavy swirling in your mouth will elicit some fleeting berry flavor. Tastes so light it's possible to mistake it for a pinot rather than a cabernet. Very disappointed as I've had this wine many years back and it was definitely worth of the quadruple gold medals it had won; I think I just saved it for too long. :(

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