2018 Nederburg The Winemasters Noble Late Harvest

Community Tasting Notes (8) Median Score: 90 points

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  9/21/2023 - Green Isaac Likes this wine: 85 Points

  Tried alongside the 2022 vintage for comparison:
  
  Appearance:
  Wine shows noticeable age on colour with clear caramelization (looks like a diluted verdelho Madeira).
  
  Aromas:
  Nose is a bit subdued (medium intensity) and mostly tertiary aromas: caramel, figs, dried apricot, dried orange-zest, honey, toast.
  
  The fruit is in the tropical spectrum (apricot, pineapple) but subdued and there is very little primary fruit left after four years of bottle age.
  
  Palate:
  a dry sensation with a toasty feel. Dried fruits galore (see above) and a faint hint of VA (somewhere between terpentine and licoricy-medicinal).
  
  The bottle age has given the wine some balance, diminishing the juxtaposed sweetness (that in the young wine overpowers the M acidity). I really like the added dry feel of this example but the wine is slightly dull (if served at around room-temp.)
  
  Interesting with age, but not worth the time or money when there's so many great examples from eg Sauternes, Loire that has greater acidity, balance and thus more benifits with bottle ageing.

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  9/12/2023 - platpeeps Does not like this wine: 81 Points

  Chenin blanc (48%), Riesling (18%) and Muscat de Frontignan (30%) with a few percent of other varieties
  Coppery gold this was extremely unctuous and sweet, tasting of raisins but without any redeeming acidity. Out of condition but while the other sample was fresher it still cloyed. CHP 81pts

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  12/24/2022 - Frost Casselbrant’s Cave Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Sött, aprikos, mandel o honung.

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  6/30/2022 - fussyeater wrote: 90 Points

  Orange in colour. Apricots on the nose. Nice lift and acid balance and good density on the palate. Very nice although likely to benefit from additional bottle age to soften the structure a little.

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  1/7/2022 - FransS wrote: 89 Points

  Nice, a waxy hint, also white fruit, balanced sweet-sour but a bit one-dimensional.

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