Community Tasting Note
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SlimShaney Likes this wine: 90 points
September 23, 2017 - Drinking now first 3 hours 89. Breath 3+hrs 90+. 5 years time 92-94. Better in 2020, better again in 2025 ... for sure.
Looks and smells absolutely Marananga. A wine completely true to the place. And a place I know and revere.
First sip you know the grapes are great quality but the wine is absolutely not ready. First 2+ hours just isnt that pleasurable. There's an inhospitable sharpness. An acidity that will keep it for 20 years and favour you then but not today.
Either decant for minimum 4 hours or preferably leave for another several years ... this is great fruit that isnt ready for drinking pre 2020 minimum.
Everything classic Marananga. So many similarities to Two Hands Zippy's Block I swear I could have picked it blindfolded. Maybe a bit of Greenock Creek too, this region is so distinctive.
All in all its great fruit here but enjoyment is inaccessable at present.3,540 views
1 Comment
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Gdubya commented:
9/25/18, 2:51 AM - This is pretty much my exact experience with the 2010s I’ve been drinking this year (and still aren’t ready IMO)