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| Community Tasting Notes (average 99.5 pts. and median of 99 pts. in 3 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Kdubs on 11/5/2021 & rated 100 points: WOTN in a double-blind tasting by an overwhelming majority in our group in a tasting that included the 2000 Pavie, 2003 Montrose, 2003 Quilceda Creek, among other highly rated wines. Concentrated, but not as primary as my other bottle opened several years ago (tasted double-blind that a couple guessed as Colgin back then.) Extremely well balanced with notes of blackberry and road tar. Not getting any better, but seemed built t last for a couple more decades. A big thank you to Michael and Annabelle Waugh for producing this amazing wine, and all the amazing memories all their wines have provided over the years. (625 views) | | | Tasted by warrenpeace on 9/21/2018 & rated 99 points: Wow what a wine ! Great fruit but has the backbone to sail on for years to come. These wines are SO under-appreciated. World class ! (1314 views) | | | Tasted by Joe Belmaati on 11/16/2004: 1998 Greenock Creek Roennfeldt Road Shiraz, Barossa, Australia
This cuvée was magic in the hands of Chris Ringland. With Ringland no longer the wine maker, this wine has lost some of it's magic - at least judging by tonight's showing from the 1998. This wine is simply too much. There is simply too much of everything here, except style and grace, and most importantly - drinking pleasure. I jokingly exclaimed that this was like being knock-outed by Mike Tyson and others around the table agreed. No one seemed to enjoy it that much. (5845 views) |
| Greenock Creek Producer website
A small Barossa estate based producer known for making rich full bodied but well balanced red wines using old fashioned techniques. Greenock Creek Cabernet Sauvignon Roennfeldt RoadWhat is it about? The grapes for this wine are picked from a single estate vineyard on our Roennfeldt Road property at Marananga near Greenock. The vines are around 80 years old, and this is our smallest vineyard. The vines crop at 1.0 to 1.5 tonnes per acre and the grapes are picked on phenological ripeness and flavour at a baume range of 14 to 16º. This baume can produce a naturally occurring high alcohol, although this will depend on seasonal conditions. Following picking the grapes are fermented in large, shallow open fermenters, pumped over, chilled and pressed through a basket press. The free run and pressings are kept separate through maturation and blended back together one week before bottling. Following primary fermentation the wine is racked into barrel to undergo natural Malolactic Fermentation. The wine is left to mature in barrels (all new French hogsheads) for a total of 36 months and then bottled. The wine is usually not filtered or fined prior to bottling, and is then left in bottle to mature for another 24 months. This therefore means that the wine has been in barrel or bottle for in excess of five years prior to its release.Cabernet SauvignonCabernet Sauvignon is probably the most famous red wine grape variety on Earth. It is rivaled in this regard only by its Bordeaux stablemate Merlot, and its opposite number in Burgundy, Pinot Noir. From its origins in Bordeaux, Cabernet has successfully spread to almost every winegrowing country in the world. It is now the key grape variety in many first-rate New World wine regions, most notably Napa Valley, Coonawarra and Maipo Valley. Wherever they come from, Cabernet Sauvignon wines always seem to demonstrate a handful of common character traits: deep color, good tannin structure, moderate acidity and aromas of blackcurrant, tomato leaf, dark spices and cedarwood.
Used as frequently in blends as in varietal wines, Cabernet Sauvignon has a large number of common blending partners. Apart from the obvious Merlot and Cabernet Franc, the most prevalent of these are Malbec, Petit Verdot and Carmenere (the ingredients of a classic Bordeaux Blend), Shiraz (in Australia's favorite blend) and in Spain and South America, a Cabernet – Tempranillo blend is now commonplace. Even the bold Tannat-based wines of Madiran are now generally softened with Cabernet SauvignonAustralia Wine Australia (Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation) | Australian Wines (Wikipedia)South Australia South Australian Wine Industry Association | South Australian Wines (Wikipedia)Barossa Barossa Wine (South Australian Tourism Commission)Barossa Valley Barossa Valley |
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