2004 Jim Barry Shiraz The Armagh

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 92.9 points

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  7/2/2022 - tanduybui Likes this wine: 94 Points

  This wine is beginning to mature quite beautifully based on the evidence of the bottle.
  
  Still a big wine, it needs time to open up so long decanting is essential. The bouquet is one of fresh dark blue fruits, earthiness, dark chocolate, caramel and some cedar. Quite savoury with beautiful and high quality fruit, it is beginning to possess some secondary characters such as smoked cedar, more pronounced mocha and oak. Finish is perhaps not spectacular and long as one would like but it was quite fruit inspired - perhaps cherry notes.
  
  Drink now or 10+ years.

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  9/26/2021 - Philip67 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Wow! Gorgeous big rich menthol and damson almost overwhelm the palate, along with notes of pepper, cake spice and wet stone. Blind I would have said this was Greenock Creek Roenfeldt Road, such is the quality and profile. Amazing acidity and tannin tingle the palate. Still young but drinking well now. Long and complex. 15% ABV. Despite my positive review it is almost too much, a wine to drink no more than a couple of glasses of on any one night - a bit like an Amarone in that way, though this is not not as big or rich as many Amarones.

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  7/20/2021 - tanduybui Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Double decanted it essentially 2 hours before consumption but should have done it earlier. Very savoury wine, had a bit of green to it at the beginning but that disappeared. Dark fruits, had some cedar and earth undertone to it. Some love spice notes. Lovely acid to keep it flowing and oak well integrated. Medium tannins - still very youthful in its outlook.
  
  Drink in 5+ years and way beyond that!

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  6/3/2019 - acb Likes this wine: 94 Points

  First thing you notice is the colour and the viscosity as you pour it, it looks like bulls blood. It’s not as much of a bruiser as that pour threatened though, with a fruity nose, and good flavours of summer berries, with good earthy undertones too. Quite a nuanced wine. Good length.

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  1/23/2018 - kostaslonis wrote: 89 Points

  Bottle brought from the house to drink with the rest of them while renovating Oinoscent.
  The fruit was jammy, the tannins were soft, big and warm aussie red, ripe red and black fruit with sweet spice notes. It felt that it lacked real depth and complexity. Expected way more from this one even though I was not really certain what to expect. It didn't justify the price tag though

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