Community Tasting Notes 10

• LTTC wrote: 88 points

  September 14, 2023 - (SYP) unbranded cork. Opened 1.5 hours before serving
  Not as fresh as the '05 served alongside. Blackberries and a touch of soy sauce. Ripe, chewy and dry.

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• graemeg wrote: flawed

  March 3, 2021 - NobleRottersSydney - regional Oz shiraz (Fix, St James, Sydney): {cork, 13.7%} [Graeme] Double decanted at 5pm and smelt iffy. Three hours late seemed little better. Fungal and manky! Not obviously corked, or oxidised. Dirty somehow. Stewed, baked fruit on the turn. Medium dusty tannins, medium weight. But minimal fruit flavour – all indeterminate, even a bit acetic. Dirty leather. Short finish. Well under par. Ullage perfect, cork looked immaculate. My cellar for the last twenty years; conditions aren’t perfect, but not bad enough to cook this. Ah well.

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• Dr S Likes this wine: 95 points

  December 17, 2019 - Tasted with The Truth, a ‘middle aged’ Wendouree in its prime. Some ageing on the rim, otherwise dark deep hues.
  
  Trademark savoury nose. Walnut, bay leaf, touch dusty and earthy, medium intensity red to black fruits lurking beneath.
  
  More fruit-driven palate, entering an elegant age. Sinewy but not muscular. Loaded with dark spicy fruit, full-bodied, with a shot of acid emerging later. Satisfying and complete.
  
  Drinking well now but 20+ more years ahead, when its deep complexity should surface. If 1998 shades 99 as a vintage, it should be superb (although Wendourees from milder years really float my boat).

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• wineappellation Likes this wine: 94 points

  May 2, 2018 - Deep ruby with colourless rim. Pnp immediate intense nose of eucalyptus, mint, ripe blackcurrant, plum juice, dark chocolate, sweet vanilla, caramel candy with some smokiness. Mid weight and refreshing on palate with some grippy tannin, layer by layer of developing flavours emerging such as dried black fruits, prune, minerals, black tea, liquorice. Very long and elegant. In a good place now, no rush to drink up.

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• SimonPh Likes this wine: 96 points

  April 28, 2018 - Wonderful shiraz, with beautiful spiciness and elegance. Great wine with years ahead of it.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1999
• Type Red
• Producer Wendouree
• Varietal Shiraz
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Australia
• Region South Australia
• SubRegion Mount Lofty Ranges
• Appellation Clare Valley
• UPC Code 9323750002225

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• In Cellars 121 (73%)
• Consumed 45 (27%)

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