Peter Bourne GWT Limestone Coast Cabernets Star Performers Tasting

8 Danks street, Sydney
Tasted Wednesday, June 17, 2015 by chatters with 575 views

Introduction

nice to see Peter again after a bit of a break. Standard elbows at dawn tasting based on the June/July 2015 tasting from Gourmet Wine Traveller magazine on Limestone Coast Cabernets and blends.

Flight 1 - Cabernet Shiraz Blends (2 Notes)

  • 2012 Wynns Coonawarra Estate Cabernet Shiraz V & A Lane

    Australia, South Australia, Limestone Coast, Coonawarra

    Aromas of black cherry, berry and currant, cedar and spice. In the mouth it's a little tart with blackcurrant fruit, spice and a bitter coffee note. Meh.

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  • 2010 Majella The Malleea

    Australia, South Australia, Limestone Coast, Coonawarra

    Slight rubber note then ripe black fruit with slight liquorice there is a bit of a chocolate core here as well on the nose. There's more of the same on the palate with alcohol heat on the back palate and chalky slight drying tannins. There is a certain bitterness to the finish. Hmm.

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Flight 2 - 2013 Cabernets (5 Notes)

  • 2013 Petaluma Cabernet Sauvignon White Label

    Australia, South Australia, Limestone Coast, Coonawarra

    Slight red currant over mint and slight herbaceous notes; tobacco here as well on the nose. Unsurprisingly juicy with crunchy red currant and considerable spice and front of mouth tannic grip. Also a bit of a mid palate scoop…well, nothing comes back to it's just a bit short leaving alcohol warmth in the mouth. Nah

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  • 2013 Wolf Blass Cabernet Sauvignon Gold Label

    Australia, South Australia, Limestone Coast, Coonawarra

    Ripe blackcurrant and slight cherry. A certain woody spice note there is something a little confected here as well. In the mouth it tastes like quite alcoholic Ribena with a fair pinch of spice joining and carrying through the drying, flour textured tannin. Long. Hmm

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  • 2013 Mr. Riggs Cabernet Sauvignon Outpost

    Australia, South Australia, Limestone Coast, Coonawarra

    Cream vanilla, Ribena buttery notes, cedar, slight spice on the nose. In the mouth there are flavours of tobacco and spice over smoky black currant fruit, slightly tough tannins, quite long and complex but it's all a bit out of whack at the moment.

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  • 2013 Lindeman's Pyrus

    Australia, South Australia, Limestone Coast, Coonawarra

    Medium minus intensity aromas of polished oak, sightly meaty, red and black currant. In the mouth the wine is juicy with red and black currant, fine silky tannins, it dries out a little and doesn't carry and fruit. Nah

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  • 2013 Lindeman's Cabernet Sauvignon Trio St. George

    Australia, South Australia, Limestone Coast, Coonawarra

    Red currant, slight meat, slight burnt toast, cedar, polished oak and spice on the nose. The wine I juicy on the palate with flavours of red currant and slightly burnt notes, tannins are drying though the fruit does carry beneath and is joined by a bitter note. Nah.

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Flight 3 - 2012 Cabernets (10 Notes)

  • 2012 Cape Jaffa Cabernet Sauvignon

    Australia, South Australia, Limestone Coast

    stinky and reductive slight rubber, cheese over black fruit, quite dense with spice here as well on the nose. There's more of the same as regards that density on the palate, a little savoury with some alcohol warmth. The fruit is quite muted. Meh.

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  • 2012 Hollick Cabernet Sauvignon

    Australia, South Australia, Limestone Coast, Coonawarra

    Slightly farty notes, red currant pencil shavings, graphite and sweet spice. In the mouth there is slightly sweet red fruit, drying, chewy raspy tannins that dry out the finish completely. Ugh

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  • 2012 Katnook Estate Cabernet Sauvignon

    Australia, South Australia, Limestone Coast, Coonawarra

    Bramble, pencil shavings, cigar box, cedar and spice. In the mouth there is broad then slightly tart brambly fruit that has talc textured tannin and finishes a little too bitter for me. Meh

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  • 2012 Yalumba Cabernet Sauvignon The Menzies

    Australia, South Australia, Limestone Coast, Coonawarra

    Medium minus intensity aromas of blackcurrant, peppery spice, graphite, cedar. In the mouth the wine is juicy, with blackcurrant flavours and then a bit of a mid-palate scoop then finishes with drying tannins that close everything down a bit on the finish. Time?

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  • 2012 Yalumba Cabernet Sauvignon The Cigar

    Australia, South Australia, Limestone Coast, Coonawarra

    medium plus intensity aromas of spice, blackcurrant, it's a bit smoky as well. On the palate the wine is dense with black fruit flavours, it's juicy and long with tannins joining but all very balanced, spice and tiny cream & vanilla notes join the fruit on the long finish. Good

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  • 2012 Brand's Laira August Tide Dry Red

    Australia, South Australia, Limestone Coast, Coonawarra

    Slight dusty with red cherry and meaty blackcurrant fruit and spice. In the mouth the fruit slight slightly sweet with spice, juicy then warming alcohol and talc textured tannins whit leave a drying but hot finish in the mouth. Not very nice.

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  • 2012 Pepper Tree Cabernet Sauvignon Calcare Reserve

    Australia, South Australia, Limestone Coast, Coonawarra

    Plum and black currant also a slight pyrazine quality here as well, a herbaceous lift if you will. In the mouth the wine is juicy and fresh with black fruits then drying chewy tannins, fruit struggles to persist underneath this. Hmm.

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  • 2012 Brand's Laira Cabernet Sauvignon Blockers

    Australia, South Australia, Limestone Coast, Coonawarra

    Red berry, tobacco leaf and smoky elements. Sour and spirituous. More of the same on the palate with fine tannins. Meh.

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  • 2010 Wynns Coonawarra Estate Cabernet Sauvignon Black Label

    Australia, South Australia, Limestone Coast, Coonawarra

    Should have been the 2012 - oops! Medium minus intensity aromas of cigar box, black fruits and cream on the nose. In the mouth the wine has flavours of blackcurrant and slight black cherry, juicy with spice and plentiful integrated tannins. Rather pleasant but a bit of alcoholic warmth on finish.

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  • 2012 Parker Coonawarra Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 95 Block

    Australia, South Australia, Limestone Coast, Coonawarra

    Low intensity aromas of a slight briny quality, some meatiness, no real fruit. In the mouth the wine is quite flat on the palate as well with slight peppery notes. Meh.

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Flight 4 - 2010 Cabernets (10 Notes)

Flight 5 - Other vintage Cabernets (4 Notes)

  • 2009 Katnook Estate Cabernet Sauvignon Odyssey

    Australia, South Australia, Limestone Coast, Coonawarra

    Herbaceous aromas, black currant fruit, quite bolshy though, some muted chocolate, spice and vanilla. It's got a bit of a show wine nose. On the palate there are flavours of sweet & ripe black fruit, tobacco leaf, massive tannins. Old school Aussie cab sav with touches of chocolate alcohol heat. Boo yah. Kind of fun though I feel guilty for admitting it.

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  • 2009 Parker Coonawarra Estate First Growth

    Australia, South Australia, Limestone Coast, Coonawarra

    meaty, blackcurrant, sweet spice, very slight leather, plentiful cedary oak. In the mouth a more smoked eucalyptus with black currant fruit here, bit of a mid palate scoop Flour textured tannins. Fruit kind of persist but alcohol heat joins here though it is fairly non-intrusive. Carries long. On this basis I should like this wine. But...Hmm.

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  • 2007 Geoff Merrill Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve

    Australia, South Australia

    Slightly funky, black fruits on agitation the fruit ripens and is joined by cream vanilla, spice and alcohol heat. On the palate leather, eucalyptus, sweet black fruits then tannins comes in . Not very nice. Kind of out of whack for me. It's okay at best.

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  • 2006 Reschke Cabernet Sauvignon Empyrean

    Australia, South Australia, Limestone Coast, Coonawarra

    Reductive and closed, slightly toasty notes and black fruit. On agitation farty black fruit dominates a herbaceous element. More of the same on the palate with drying tannins. Disjointed and out of whack. All over the place. I wonder if this bottle is out of condition?

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Closing

Plenty of tannin here! My standouts were the Yalumba Cigar, Balnaves Tally and the Wynns John Riddoch and Alex 88 so I went back and retried them with some bread and cheese. On that second taste the Yalumba and Balnaves proved to be the better of the four.

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