Community Tasting Note

• jmcmchi Likes this wine: 91 points

  September 12, 2021 - Decanted 10 minutes
  
  Pristine cork, very little sign of aging in colour
  
  Smooth tannins, spice and acidity holding well. Well named syrah as opposed to shiraz

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• Neecies commented:

  9/14/22, 1:35 PM - When I was searching in my cellar for something to pay homage to the queen with, besides opening the Madeira privately bottled for her 25th Jubilee in '77 which I also have, I am several days later mystified that it didn't occur to me to open a Balmoral. SO OBVIOUS. Anyway, glad to see your note about how these are holding up. I bought four on Winebid.

• jmcmchi commented:

  9/14/22, 8:38 PM - I am envious….don’t think I saw them, but I am due to receive a Mountain Blue tomorrow…..and a Hentley Farm Beauty

• Neecies commented:

  9/15/22, 11:32 AM - Nice! Discussing these had me go to Winebid to check if there were any Aussie gems this week...nah. And prices on some were higher than I expect to see--they don't typically value Aussie wines highly. Must be more interest of late.

• jmcmchi commented:

  9/15/22, 11:58 AM - It’s pretty crazy on Aussie wines. I don’t know if they still have the Lindemans Bin 50 and similar they were trying to flog at $20. They dropped them to $10 eventually

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