NV Gralyn Estate Artizan

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 91.8 points

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  2/20/2011 - Paul S wrote: 94 Points

  A Sweet Afternoon (Edmund and Shuming's place @ the Marbella): Again, excellent. Deeper coloured than the PX, this was an almost brownish, Amber tone. Lots of sweet spices on the nose - quite a bit spicier than the Gralyn PX actually - and then dried fruits, quite fruit-cake-like, dark chocolate and rum & raisins. Very nice, and those same flavours were just carried on into the palate. Here, the wine showed some bright acidity on the attack, but it was so weighty that it seemed rather stickier and more syrupy sweet than the PX that came before it. However, I did feel that this wine had an edginess and verve to it as well that belied all that weight and richness. On the mid-palate, you really noticed a solid body with a nice spine that supported all the rich dried fruit and dark chocolate notes. It had a long, long finish with tons of spice, rubber and clean fresh tail that had a pleasant warmth. I found the PX perhaps more enjoyable and better integrated, but this had a certain je nais sais qouis to it that made it stand out just as much, if not more so.

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  2/3/2011 - Alex H wrote: 88 Points

  Rich unctuous toffee caramel ripe golden sultanas and apricots. Dripping with rich christmasy goodness. Retains it's mandarin orange zip.

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  4/7/2010 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points

  Simple Series III: My Birthday (Asia Grand, Odeon Towers): Not quite as bowled over this as I was the last time - perhaps because I did not have enough time with it this time round. Still though, this is an excellent port-style wine. Very hedonistic, lovely nose, with rich coffee aromas, treacle and lots of dried fruit. Almost brandy like at points, whisky like at others. Palate was rich and unctuous, with sweet liquered fruit, raisins, fruitcake and licorice layering the mouth. Great, long finish as well, with lengthy spice and mahogany aftertones. A lovely wine to end the dinner with.

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  9/21/2009 - Alex H wrote: 90 Points

  Australia Wine Trip; 9/20/2009-9/21/2009 (Margaret River): All the rich opulent and hedonistic notes that a top grade sweet wine should have but not at all as sticky like the rest of the sweet stuff you can find in australia. Beautifully well balanced with lively essence of raisins. This is golden ember medicine of the gods! Amazing wine with great finese reminding me of a really good hungarian top grade tokay.

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  9/1/2009 - Paul S wrote: 94 Points

  Winekakis' Dinner at Asia Grand (Asia Grand, Odeon Towers): Muscat, Pedro Ximenez, Tokay grapes (average age of 10 years). This was beautiful. Amber-brown colour with a tinge of green. Nose was deep, complex and rich, with figs and apricots, mahogany, spice, caramel, butterscotch and fruit cake, all super-fresh and alive. Palate had sticky, clingy feel wed to a great, fresh balance. It had interesting little whiffs of pungent tropical fruit - mango, durian, jackfruit - along with dried figs and sultanas. Maybe not quite as complex as the nose, but lots of concentration here, with the finish just lifting off into a long, long spiral of spice notes. Gorgeous wine.

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