Community Tasting Note

• graemeg wrote:

  February 5, 2018 - NobleRottersSydney - Penfolds at 10 20 30 years (360 Bar & Dining, Sydney): {cork, 13.5%} [Aaron] Had a 40-minute decant. Big, chocolate and cedar nose. Liquorice too. Very ripe, powerful. Plenty of oak on the palate, too, with sweet chocolate and currant flavours. Medium chalky tannins, medium-bodied with lowish acid. Makes a bit initial impression in the mouth, then flattens out a bit, and only finishes medium length. Weaker back-palate, despite the pleasant flavours it’s just a bit hollow and simple for a Coonawarra flagship red. The more I taste JR from the late 90s the more I understand why they ripped out so many vines and re-thought the oak treatment.

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• rooman commented:

  3/23/18, 6:42 AM - Do you think it may be still too young and in a dormant phase?

• graemeg commented:

  3/25/18, 5:19 PM - Nup! Tasted this too many times to think anything other than a fairly simple oaky wine is on offer here. It's nice enough, but there's no dimension to it in my view.

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