2001 Bannockburn Shiraz

Community Tasting Notes (13) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  6/20/2021 - crazywineguy Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Little change to my last note. Some wines just resonate with you, right? Irvine Grand Merlot, Bannockburn chardonnay, Mosel riesling, 20 year old Sauternes. Well this one resonates for me. I smell it and its like I'm home or I'm greeting a old friend once again. Unique leather and earth profile and complex tertiary notes. Happy I still have a case to go.

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  8/31/2019 - crazywineguy Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Smooth, intense tertiary wine. Leather, leather and more leather. Just outstanding. Extremely long finish. Everyone at the table thought this was WOTN.

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  7/15/2017 - crazywineguy Likes this wine: 95 Points

  What a fantastic wine. Red edge, deep opaque centre, perfect cork with just end rim staining. Nose shows old leather, plums and varnish, warmth and age elements. In the mouth this strikes as a wine of quality and breeding and age. There are the elements detected on the aroma plus a silkiness/slipperiness and almost a green whole-bunch edge but smooth with no angles to the fruit/acid/tannin balance. Real depth to the wine and a long finish characterised by that sweet leather varnish. 16 years has seen it enter well the tertiary flavour profile and I think it can keep this aspect together for 4-10 years depending on cork and cellaring conditions. This wine goes so well with the heavier elements of Japanese cuisine, the fruit core marrying well to the umami accented dishes.
  With decanting it started to kick up a level in acidity and a stronger more minerally finish, remarkably. This is a sign of a wine with some stuffing left. Geelong shiraz at its best.

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  8/12/2014 - esfesq wrote: 92 Points

  Showing beautifully right now, with an inky purplish color with some hints of ruby -- semi mature color but perfumed right out of the bottle. The red fruit seemed to have a dried quality, it had some sweet spice, smoke (later developed into almost a scorched Earth note), leather, minerals, earthy with some menthol/cough medicine notes which kept evolving and changing over the course of the evening. Later, it fattened up with tons of cherry fruit and cassis, loamy and rich. The finish was smooth all night, with a nice silky tannic structure that provided a very balanced framework without being intrusive. Never really tasted like a Shiraz, but a very impressive wine.

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  7/4/2014 - StewartWent wrote: 90 Points

  Plain amazing that this can be bought as a genuine cellar release in the mid $30s. True to region with spice, acid, drying fruits and a little game. Spicy acid drives very good length. Quite Northern Rhone for mine. Drink now.

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