2007 Mount Mary Quintet

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 90.3 points

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  9/8/2017 - Vini Ciclismo Likes this wine: 91 Points

  2007 Vintage Tasting (Bronte, Sydney): medium to pale red.
  pleasing fruit and spice fragrance, clean and pure, hint of sherbet and cedar.
  light to medium body, not a blockbuster but has flavour intensity. flavours are very pure, no sign of over development, bright red berries, subtle spice, hint of cedar, classic MM, delicious. A surprise given the apparently poor vintage for them, but at 10 years this is a long long way from a dud.

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  6/1/2010 - AndrewJ Likes this wine: 90 Points

  I've spent some more time with the '07 Mount Mary Quintet "not for sale" after opening one of the free bottles. The back label says that "it is not without merit", and I'd agree. There are some nice inputs from the winemaker - i.e. quality cedar oak, well judged - and with time decanting it fleshes out from what was, apart from the tannin, a rather thin palate.
  
  It's a wine that if I'd paid $20-30 for, I'd be satisfied, although not too excited. There are elements to it that lift it above that category - the oak treatment for one - but on the other hand it lacks fullness and balance.
  
  A well made wine from sub-standard fruit, but I'm sure many producers would be happy to release it as a mid-priced standard release. I'm also, unusually, picking up some Coonawarra-type notes in this wine. And not knowing what to expect from secondary buds, I can report that it's well ripened, and not in the slightest bit green.

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  5/29/2010 - AndrewJ Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Fruit from secondary buds after primary set destroyed by frost. Blocky tannins obscure fruit and it will be interesting to see if a hollow wine will result when the tannins soften, or whether underlying fruit will remain. Age for another 2 years perhaps, although it may last longer.

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