1983 Mount Mary Cabernets

Community Tasting Notes (1) Avg Score: 90 points

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  12/1/2013 - HowardNZ Likes this wine: 90 Points

  TNs: 1953, 1960, 1962 and 1986 Château Margaux, 1953 and 1955 Rioja etc: Tasted blind in an older Bordeaux line up. Light red in colour, just beginning to brown. Dumber nose than the Montrose, showing red currant and some cassis. Also secondary aromas of leather saddle, cigar box and some spice. On the palate, savoury flavours, with good fruit weight. Less acids than the Montrose, lacking intensity and some complexity. Tannins thoroughly integrated. It made me think of a well worn old leather couch. A pleasant mellow, mature Cabernet Sauvignon. Other tasters suggested the wine was in Modernist style and perhaps even over-extracted. 90.
  
  On the reveal, a surprise to most that this was a wine from the Yarra Valley, Victoria, Australia, apparently from a drought year. Cabernet Sauvignon 100%.

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