2017 Jacob's Creek Shiraz Reserve Limestone Coast

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 84.7 points

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  12/10/2021 - stayhappy21 wrote: 85 Points

  Opened a bottle tonight over dinner to signal the end of the work year over a home-cooked steak.
  
  Bright purple in colour with notes of fresh berries and plums. A touch of vanilla in the back with a smooth finish that was occasionally hijacked by bursts of fumes of alcohol and dark spices and liquorice.
  
  Not a bad wine, but nothing terrific about it either.

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  10/11/2020 - stayhappy21 wrote: 85 Points

  Bought this at 50% off and opened it at home over dinner with my in-laws to celebrate a birthday. We had pan-fried ribeye, oyster omelette, chicken and pork satay, crispy pork joel, crispy kailan, fried hokkien mee, fried rice and barbecued XXL prawns.
  
  Tight upon opening. Soft chewy tannins with fresh blackberry and plums coupled with cream and liquorice.
  
  Not terribly impressive; not terrible either. Had expected more from the Reserve range.

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  2/23/2020 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 84 Points

  Really not very good. Concocted, confected, sweet fruit and sticky tannins, little or no varietal typicity, manages to be green and alcoholic at the same time, raw finish. I suspect that you could make this without actually using grapes, but I guess that they killed some of the poor buggers in the process. A dog’s breakfast - except that our Dachshund Otto probably wouldn’t go near this. A huge disappointment and it isn’t exactly cheap either. “Reserve”?!? Who are they kidding? Even France makes better wines at half the price now.

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  1/23/2020 - Fwmsmeets wrote: 88 Points

  Lovely Syrah with typical plummy notes

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  9/21/2019 - StewartWent wrote: 85 Points

  This is ordinary and a big step down on the BV variant. Seems almost stripped of proper fruit; rather traces of generic red berries. Like drinking a sh(*&* red in economy class (ie the altitude killing the fruit). To be fair did improve a little but the damage was already done.

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