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Wine Definition
- Vintage2003
- TypeRed
- ProducerGroom
- VarietyZinfandel
- DesignationBush Block
- Vineyardn/a
- CountryAustralia
- RegionSouth Australia
- SubRegionBarossa
- AppellationBarossa Valley
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6/4/2012 - jmcleay wrote: 86 Points
Plum, Raisins and sweet port notes, opened up a bit after a few hours but past its best.
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12/19/2011 - graemeg wrote:
{cork, 15.3%} A little bricking around the rim of this otherwise dark garnet wine. Nose is quite developed, very intense, with liquorice, raisins, quince paste, and all sorts of sweet, sticky jammy tones. This 'zin-from-central-casting' is consistent on the full-bodied palate, with baked toffee and molasses notes carried along on a warm alcoholic tide. Only the finest and quite soft powdery tannins remain; acid is hard to spot and seems almost to be replaced by alcohol for structural purposes. There's more than an element of prune to the flavours as well, and yet somehow the whole lavish thing seems to work, in a party-trick kind of way. It helps considerably that there's no evident residual sugar - that would really have pushed it over the edge. I can't see much complexity really on offer, nor still to come, so further cellaring is hardly warranted - the finish is actually quite short for the size of the thing - but that's not to detract from the generally enjoyable experience of consuming this. If you're not totally allergic to the style...
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11/1/2011 - AlexGarner wrote: 89 Points
One of the OK bottles in this batch. Quite a rich black current nose with a hint of celery and a relatively sweet palette of cinnamon and plum with a long finish.
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10/24/2011 - AlexGarner Likes this wine: 89 Points
I've had some problems with this wine before, so this was a pleasant surprise. The nose showed some aged Zinfandel characters - raisins, blackcurrant and prunes, but this one was more lively and interesting that the last few.
The cork was in really good shape; which goes some way to explaining why winemakers should get a real enclosure - more than half of this batch have been broken so far, and it's a shame, cause this is really good.
The palette has some acidity and soft, sugary tannins, and the palette reveals a dense, fruitcake, blackberry and stewed rhubarb melange that shows me what the previous bottles could have delivered.
Overall, it's nice to see what this wine can do with some age, but it's a shame that the corks have rendered half my supply useless. All I can say to my poor suffering Father-in-law who has tried two of the bad bottles with me so far is: "we should have opened bottle number 17802620. Sorry about that."
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6/12/2011 - AlexGarner wrote: 88 Points
On the first day this had the usual straw and dried raisin notes that I'm not a big fan of. The palette is quite alcoholic, and the older Zinfandel characters, like raisin and pinecone were quite pronounced.
I left it for a bit and came back on the third day and it was quite good. The nose had dropped a bit of the dustiness and dryness and there was more pronounced fruit, mostly blackberry with some cassis as well. The palette was much sweeter, taking the edge off the alcohol, and the finish is much softer and more rounded.
It was clearly made for drinking earlier, but it is still interesting none the less.
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