2005 Yangarra Estate Grenache High Sands

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 92.3 points

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  6/25/2019 - retired_and_roving Likes this wine:

  2 weeks in Australia with a stopover in Singapore; 6/14/2019-7/1/2019 (Singapore, Sydney, Adelaide, McLaren Vale, Barossa Valley, Adelaide Hills): Library bottle from the winery. Appreciated being able to taste one of these with some nice age on it. Color is dark and dense. Palate is also darker red fruited, rich and intense. Sweet grenache fuit with some herbs and earth. With time in the glass it opens up, becomes a bit softer and more expansive on the palate. Wants a little room to breathe for best showing.

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  6/25/2019 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:

  Return to Aus; 6/23/2019-7/5/2019 (Adelaide, South Australia wine regions, Tassie, Yarra, etc.): Wow is this wine nice with some age (and to be fair I think this is still really much too young). At first it pours a bit alcoholic and intense and we were worried that this was the phase where it had fallen too much in that old school Aussie way, but as it opened up a lot of that blew off and then you have this wonderful darker red fruits and a bit more herbal in nature and just lovely. The last sip was the best and so wish we'd given it a longer decant.

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  9/3/2012 - fingers wrote: 93 Points

  Color is medium ruby to garnet, about 70% saturated and very slow, clear legs. At the pop the bouquet explodes from the bottle but the palate is much too hot and aggravated. After about 4-5 hours in decanter with occasional swirling it softens nicely. By day 2, this has evolved into a splendid, hedonistic treat. Cherry licorice, raspberry, coconut, fig, and mandarin fruit notes with tangible earth, spices, and sweet pipe tobacco. Still a bit of a bruiser on the alcohol front but aeration really mitigates the heat and the enduring flavor and complexity through the finish justifies the ripeness to me. Should hold on and develop even more in the cellar. Wish I had more 5+12+18+8 = 93

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  9/17/2011 - fingers wrote: 94 Points

  For a change, I'm with WA and not Tanzer on this one. It needed a few years cellaring and it's starting to pay off. Popped and it was singing within 30min. Gorgeous dark ruby, 90% opaque and thin, creepy legs. Average intensity bouquet of flowers and candy - pink peppermint, raspberry, lavender - and a pinch of black pepper. Throw in a little smoked meat and oak. A world of difference from a year ago in terms of being overripe or "thick". It has a medium-light body and has really backed off the heat that I tasted before. It is pushing a sweet, brown sugar note on the palate but is perfectly stiff with acidity and lively through a long and really complex finish. Wonderful on it's own, as I think a lot of good nuance could be lost under food. Glad to have one left 5+12+18+9 = 94

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  11/6/2010 - WetRock wrote:

  OC Poker For Wine VIII: Grenache Blind (Wine Cellar Club, Irvine, CA): Served Blind. Lots of oak on the nose with raisins and heat. Big and oaked with a light hot finish.

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