2016 Yalumba Cabernet Sauvignon The Menzies

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 91 points

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  2/24/2024 - ProfByron Likes this wine: 89 Points

  My memory of Menzies is a ridiculously oaked and therefore rather inaccessible wine at least in youth. This is therefore something of a surprise in that it’s quite approachable.
  
  That said, the alcohol is annoying (14.5%). And yes it’s heavily oaked. Not particularly obviously Coonawarra terroir.
  
  I enjoyed it more the 1st night than the 2nd (kept under zero oxygen).
  
  Seriously good vineyards, but a tad silly recipe?
  
  Yalumba need to do some reflection if they want this wine to be (taken as) serious/premium.
  
  14.5%, cork.

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  9/16/2023 - Irish_Wine Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Well defined blackcurrant and blackberry. A minty note. Fine cedar and sweet tobacco. Full bodied with sweet, ripe tannins and a lovely freshness. Long, creamy spice flecked blackcurrant finish. Drink now or hold.
  
  WSET Notes:
  
  Deep ruby.
  
  Pronounced on the nose with blackcurrant, blackberry, mint, cedar, graphite, leather and sweet tobacco. Developing.
  
  Pronounced and dry on the palate. Full body, high alcohol, medium plus acidity, high tannins, long finish.
  
  Can drink now but has potential for aging.

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  8/12/2022 - chatters wrote:

  Coonawarra Roadshow (Town Hall, Sydney): On the nose concentrated black currant fruit, cedar, smidge of eucalyptus, sweet spice. In the mouth it's juicy, slightly baked black fruit, dense tannins are tight but quite floury textured, there is a bit of alcohol warmth on the finish as well. Showing quite primary but balanced in a large way. Hmm.

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  3/14/2022 - rossso Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Promising. Needs at least another 5 years to see how good it might be.

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