2006 Tyrrell's Shiraz Vat 8

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 90.4 points

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  3/31/2021 - azzah wrote: 92 Points

  Pretty delicious. Dark berries, dark chocolate, liquorice, spice, vanilla and coconut. Plush, velvet tannins with good length. Slurpable.

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  5/21/2017 - Wozza Likes this wine: 95 Points

  What a difference 11 years makes! This is a smouldering, Hunter classic at the apex of its game. There's power, elegance & interest in spades here.
  
  Impenetrable black cherry in colour. The nose is seductive. As ripe blackberry, blackcurrant, tar, cigar box, liquorice, a touch of fresh mushroom & spice allsorts lead you in to the depth-charged med-full bodied palate. There's long, plush, dry tannins. And a tidal-bore mid-palate rush of super ripe fruit, salted caramel & smokey spicy oak notes.
  
  This is the epitome of Hunter Shiraz. A Wozza 95/100 (4.2/5.0) from me. A great Langtons auction buy.

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  12/25/2014 - NickBurwood Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Christmas Day Dinner; English cheese platter.
  Unscrewed for an hour, blackcurrant concentrated on the palate with hint of liquorice and earthiness providing complexity to tip it over into the excellent 90pt range.
  One bottle left, will leave a couple of years to see if improves further - jury out.

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  3/27/2014 - NickBurwood Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Unscrewed and left open for two hours.
  This wine has broadened out since last June and while showing many of the characteristics of my earlier note, the parts are much better integrated to make an improved whole.
  The fruit element (blackcurrant) in particular has a much mellower deep character than before.
  Now excellent still with potential.

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  6/29/2013 - NickBurwood Likes this wine: 89 Points

  100% Shiraz. Decanted for 90minutes. Dark broody colour.
  Nose of blackcurrant, vanilla spice. Sweet tarry ribena flavours, very concentrated, full bodied but perhaps a little one dimensional at present to hit the 90 mark.
  The jury's out whether will attain an excellent mark with time. Drinking nicely now but clearly with some aging potential. Will try next bottle same time next year to assess development/enhancements - if any.

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