1992 Mount Mary Pinot Noir

Community Tasting Notes (5) Median Score: 95 points

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  12/30/2023 - drjb Likes this wine: 95 Points

  At a private lunch, Greenslopes. A 'lost cellar' bottle this again opened beautifully showing a persistent cherry red colour with lots of sediment in the last 100mls. The nose was again intriguing with an initial sense of old Muscat then opening to reveal rich red cherries, fresh strawberries, Asian spice and touches of Grand Marnier. The palate had lots of soft red berry fruits balanced by spice, cumquat and shiitake mushroom and a soft persistence that lingers. There is both thrust and delicacy in this wine that is remarkable at the 32 year mark. Just delicious.

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  3/12/2023 - drjb Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Yes 96 ! From deep in the cellar this wine was opened with expectations of being beyond drinking age. However it opened beautifully with a pale cherry colour with a rusted edge a striking nose that initially recalled Victorian Liqueur Muscat of great age with fresh muscat characters melding with fruitcake and allspice. With some decanter time that gave way to more classic red cherry, fresh strawberries, Asian spice and touches of Grand Marnier. The palate had lots of soft red berry fruits balanced by spice, cumquat and shiitake mushroom. There was a striking texture and mouthfeel that really lifted the wine into the truly excellent rating and provided an almost endless persistence and weightlessness. To use a Burgundy reference Mugnier Amoureuses would be the best descriptor.
  The old 'only great old bottles, not great old wines' comes to mind here. A 30year old New world pinot of this class is a rare beast indeed.

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  6/21/2016 - felixp wrote: 80 Points

  Brought along to our tasting group really as a curio.
  Dead and buried. RIP.

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  3/9/2016 - phill mz wrote:

  bottle 1 - TCA
  bottle 2 - smoky creamy elegant. soft integrated tannins. excellent

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  7/14/2015 - wineo101 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Loved it. Still holding up after all these years.
  
  Earthy bouquet of cinnamon and sweet oak, quite intense, wet ground, raspberry, typical forest floor. Buttery after half an hour in glass.
  
  Went superb with crab pasta.

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