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| Community Tasting Notes (average 94.3 pts. and median of 94 pts. in 8 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by MacDausend on 1/1/2024 & rated 97 points: Wonderful. More refined than Blue Eyed Boy but still retaining some of the “punch”. Sublime. Chocolate and pepper notes. Hint of mint. Will buy again. (508 views) | | | Tasted by Allabla on 12/23/2023 & rated 93 points: Complex beautiful. Decanted for 1 hour. Probably could have stood longer. Excellent wine. (478 views) | | | Tasted by DawgByte on 10/18/2023 & rated 95 points: This is a classically bold Mollydooker Velvet Glove edition, big and bold with aromas of blackberries, black current, black cherries, cooked plums, raisins, cedar, spices and mocha. It's full bodied with most elements (acidity & tannins) in balance. There's a bit of heat upon opening, but that dissipates over time.
On my palate detected black cherries, blackberries, black currants, cooked plums, espresso, baking spices, cedar, herbs, licorice, and mocha. It has a long finish with a nice grip on the backend. Lastly, there's a bit of sweetness to this Shiraz, but nothing to suggest it's a fruit bomb. The solid structure keeps the sweetness in check.
As I said earlier this is classic Velvet Glove and a wonderful wine. I recommend cellaring this wine for at least two more years. (782 views) | | | Tasted by Odedis.Wine.reviews on 9/26/2022 & rated 92 points: Inky in color with a short reddish rim.
Fruity nose of blackberries, sweet plums, cooked cherries, raisins, dried figs, alcohol, licorice, vanilla, cedar, cola, spices, milk chocolates, tobacco and peppercorn.
Full bodied, smooth and bold, with medium acidity and long legs.
On the palate black currants, cooked plums, sweet cherries, vanilla, spices, cedar, espresso, cola, light herbs, licorice, mocha and red chili pepper.
Long finish with round tannins and tangy raspberries.
This is a very tasty Shiraz from Australia. Big and bold, and somewhat sweet. Has a lot of acidity on the finish for all that fruit. Rich and extracted.
Very much "in your face" kind of wine, and not for the faint of heart. Feels very much like a Napa Syrah, with a teeth staining color.
Needs a couple hours to open up properly, which I didn't have, as it finished too quickly.
Needs 5 years in the bottle to mature properly, and calm down a bit. Will be a 95+ wine in 10 years. Will age nicely in the next 15 years.
Wine Spectator 95 points. Robert Parker 96 points.
Good as a sipping wine, and good with food too. Will pair nicely with BBQ Meats. I paired it with a Charcuterie board of meats and cheeses.
16% alcohol by volume.
92 points.
$215. (2013 views) | | | Tasted by ta75 on 6/19/2022 & rated 94 points: Great wine, great balance. Decanted 2 hours was great. Started to fall off after hour 7. Not an overdone aussie shiraz, with great intensity but very pure fruit. At around hour 4-5 it was best, displaying more meaty notes and pepper along with very concentrated black-fruit reduction. Top quality and easy to drink now. Buy more 94+ (2059 views) | | | Tasted by SlimShaney on 5/20/2022 & rated 94 points: Should have let it breathe, too warm initially. Then settles down to being a typical Molly but not having all of the magic of some vintages. (1871 views) | | | Tasted by alohashirt on 5/2/2022 & rated 94 points: This has one of the biggest, longest noses I have ever smelled. Super intense, red fruit, hot nose, spice, vanilla. On the palate, this is a fruit explosion - raspberry, blackberry, stewed plums, vanilla, spice, and a creaminess. Medium body, just enough tannins, and just enough acidity- this is all about the fruit. Definitely heat there from the 16% ABV. I wonder if this is the kind of wine that Johnny Depp drinks every day?
The cool thing about (great) wine is that there are levels to it. The Juan Gil Monastrell I was drinking before this cost $12 a bottle and it's a delicious serious wine. Mollydooker's Boxer Shiraz, at $31 is a consistently excellent, high octane, fruit-forward shiraz with much more obvious vanillin than this wine. Velvet glove is the same varietal, same vineyards, same winemaker, more complexity, and 5x the price. Is it 5x as good? probably not but it's better than most $200 wine that I have tasted. It's certainly good value for $150. I've finished half the bottle and I am already ordering two more!
I do wonder about aging with this wine. My impression is that wine-lovers want to believe that wine gets better with time, regardless of whether this is true. I have drunk at least 300 bottles of Mollydooker wine - some 16 years old, but most 2 to 4 years old. My subjective impression is that it's best drunk young - yet some of my best ever wines were made by Sarah & Sparky Marquis in 2000.
Second night: I figured that I would try this against Mollydooker's entry-level Shiraz, the boxer, which costs 1/5 of Velvet Glove. I love both wines. The boxer was tighter, more vanillin, more obvious oak, less overpowering fruit - and to be clear, Velvet Gloves isn't a fruit bomb, isn't flaccid, doesn't taste confected. The difference I noticed wasn't about a specific quality factor. Instead, it was something that I first heard articulated by Peter Koff, of the wineking youtube channel. When I look across my desk at a half glass of Penfolds Bin 600, a half-glass of Mollydooker's Boxer, and an empty glass of Velvet glove, I know that I can only do one thing... pour the remaining 2/3 of a glass of Velvet Glove and finish it. Even if it means throwing out some other excellent wine. Velvet Glove is the bottle that I want to finish, regardless. Its very special to me. (1945 views) |
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