2005 Kilikanoon Shiraz Oracle

Community Tasting Notes (48) Avg Score: 92.0 points

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  2/11/2024 - Philckw Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Deep garnet, beautiful nose of ripe cherries, berries, plums, vanilla and some tobacco? Palate, nicely rounded, tannins in control and nice long finish! I think this still has quite a few more years to it so don’t rush to drink it!

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  5/9/2023 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Tuesday Dinner at Crown Wine Cellars, Hong Kong (The Conservatory, Crown Wine Cellars, 18 Deep Water Bay Drive, Shouson Hill, Hong Kong): Splash decanted then drank over beautiful artisanal strong French cheese. Deep purple red semi-opaque colour. Beautiful nose, boysenberry and some oaky spicy classic Clare Valley Shiraz character. Quite rounded and well integrated on the palate. Satisfying, in a way that puts a nice calm smile on your face. This has lots of time on its side but is already ready to go. Bought on release as part of a quest to find 'the next Grange', it is finally entering its early drinking window. However, I would recommend a much longer decant, maybe double-decant overnight. 91 easy.

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  5/5/2022 - Old Joe Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Needs a little time to open up but a smooth wine

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  3/27/2022 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 88 Points

  From a case bought on release as part of a 'Hunt for the Next Grange' research project that Runny and I did. 8-hour decant overnight. Very deep purple/ red fully opaque colour. Nose is almost totally muted and shut down…. almost earth to Mars? Very sour taste. I remain convinced that this will become a ‘new Grange’ sometime in its future but for now I would ignore and re-visit in 7-10 years’ time. 88 with 95pts upside.

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  3/20/2022 - Namarrgon wrote:

  Mistake

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