2005 Leeuwin Estate Shiraz Art Series

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 89.3 points

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  3/14/2020 - WineHors wrote:

  Screw cap
  Colour: Nice clear dark red, still dark - due to screw cap
  Nose: Initial alcohol with dry earthy, toast - a bit perfume and woody oak
  palate: smooth light body, earthy dry. slight velvety tannin still there. palate not unpleasant, but no plum shiraz. a slight cabernet-like. fruit still a bit there - drink up

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  1/22/2009 - CamWheeler wrote: 85 Points

  Rubber, cherry, red berries and some soft florals. Palate is rather non-descript. Nose is good, palate is ok.

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  1/12/2009 - Paul S wrote: 90 Points

  Drank with Lionel and Rachel at Bottles and Bottles over roast pork rack and knuckle, complete with crackling. Nice enough pairing, but for once, the thicker, sweeter South Australian Shirazes may have been a better match. Anyway, this was a very pleasant wine, and very Margaret River in feel indeed. Nose opened up with toasty vanilla that more or less remained through the course of the evening, and then tone of dried blueberry, licorice and sweet plums with a small a layer of powdery chalk and the lightest savoury banyard touch with quite a bit of perfumy flower petals floating around. There was some alcohol and varnish at first, surprising for a 13% wine. but that faded with an hour or so in the decanter. The palate attacked with a burst of bright acid that more or less fills the mouth and gets the ducts working, a bit OTT at first, wavering to imbalance. Took awhile to settle down into what was more like a light bite of acid It did integrate somewhat though, to meld with cool dried blueberry, licorice and sweet plum flavours with more vanilla towards the toasty end - nice finish, again a bit big seeming for a 13% wine, but good enough support from velvety tannins. All in all though, a nice wine with clean, lithe, bright fruit.

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  5/1/2008 - albeytw wrote: 92 Points

  Ruby color, Spice and peppery. Fruity. Balanced and elegant style, less Alcohol level. It should be good pair with food.

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  3/1/2008 - cortoncharlie wrote: 90 Points

  Clear, deep ruby red color. Nose was quite pure with simple red fruit and a bit of game. In the mouth, very supple medium body with a nice core of sweet red fruit, game and earth. Quite a decent finish and no mouth drying tannins at all. Very refreshing and if this was served blind I would have guessed Cotes du Rhone. While certainly simple and fruit forward this is not your typical Australian fruit and oak slut. Drank at wedding and not decanted.

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