2019 Tyrrell's Shiraz Old Hillside

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 93 points

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  8/27/2023 - brisbane piefan Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Drank over 2 nights and was best on night 2. Dark fruits and quite rich. No rush.

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  8/14/2023 - chatters wrote:

  Moncur Syrah/Shiraz (Bistro Moncur, Sydney): Savoury, red and black plums, earthy/meaty notes. Medium plus intensity acidity, like the estate there is a slight sense of wetness but with a little more concentration to the red hued fruits, soft tannic burr. Balanced. Okay.

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  3/28/2023 - Rote Kappelle Likes this wine: 93 Points

  I think this is outstanding in terms of PQR and it has to be very close to Outstanding on the CT scale.
  
  Stylistically, it really reminds me of a slightly more modern/sophisticated take on the old Hunter Valley 'Burgundy' - made always from Shiraz but it used to indicate amore full, soft style, akin to well cellared Burgundy, or Burgundy before it started being extracted and oaked to hell in the 1990's.
  
  Whilst this wine features a more rounded mouthfeel, almost velvety, the tannins are there, they just appear to have been deportment school and know how to behave and how to make their presence felt, discretely.
  
  In terms of flavour, you would never mistake this for Pinot/Burgundy. This is clearly Shiraz - black pepper, earth, ripe plum and blackberry (but definitely not blackberry jam) and a surprising but also enjoyable leafiness. 2019 was a dry, hot year and the Hunter is a very long way from being cool climate. It works, though. Acid is refreshing without being distracting. Intensity is fine and right for the style, length is exemplary.
  
  This is a style that tends not to be about fireworks and leaping out of the glass demanding your attention. It is the sort of wine that grows on you like a happy tumour.
  
  Well worth trying this, especially if, like me you have a drinking memory (I must not be drinking enough) going back to the days of Hunter River Burgundy, Hermitage and even Claret, all made from Shiraz. Will this rival those amazing mid 1960's Lindeman's 'Burgundies'? Probably not, but it might surprise you with its longevity, if you choose to forego its present pleasures and cellar. The 1965 Lindeman's Hunter River Burgundy consumed in about 1996 remains one of my treasured drinking memories. Mature, yes, but gorgeous and it gave the impression that it might have many years ahead on the same level, provided the cork held out.
  
  This wine is, thank goodness, under screw cap, so the ridiculous game of vinous roulette that goes on when you have cork closures is eliminated. Cellar without having to factor in the oddities of the cork.

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  8/1/2022 - chatters wrote:

  Hunter Whistlestop 2022 (Hunter Valley): Smidge of black pepper, savoury spice, black plums, earth, a sense of concentration but more of the brooding power side of things. Medium plus intensity acidity but this is dense - that sense of power is on the palate as well, plums and a smidge of an almost liquorice, talc textured tannins. Finishes savoury but has a fruit sweet core. Good but time required.

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