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NotNYC Likes this wine: 90 points
September 15, 2013 - bot these ages ago & finally pulled from the depths of the cellar. Qualifier: I have so little experience with Aussie wine and although I do enjoy CA Central Coast and Rhones, you can pretty much ignore this review.
This 2003 Tatiarra Shiraz Cambrian is a very pretty wine. I decanted for a couple hours and poured, just gorgeous with the setting sun complementing the pour.
Nose is a bit restrained. Thought it backed off a bit from the decant. Which is consistent with the glass and this wine, they like one another. The more time in the glass, the more this wine grows.
10 years old going on 5. Well rounded and integrated. Brambly notes, lovely viscosity, not too sweet with a refined well stated spectrum of moderate complexity.
However, during dinner there's a hole that jars the acidity and the resolved tannins against one another. I dunno it made me think twice and that is what keeps me from scoring higher - much as I deplore scores.
About 3 hrs in, drinking solo and this drinks more complete yet sweeter, a character that detracts.
Something like 5 more bottles in the cellar, will not bury too far as I suspect these may dry out over the next 3-4 years. Then its OTH.
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