Community Tasting Notes 26

• Johno's Cellar Likes this wine: 89 points

  May 31, 2020 - Sound wine with delicate ripe sweet flavours lingering length. Still good tannin structure with a number of levels of flavour. Interesting wine for the age of it

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• hawkvin Likes this wine: 90 points

  April 17, 2016 - Tasted immediately upon opening. Surprisingly young with good acid and integrated tannins. Decanted for 1 hour before drinking. Well-balanced with flavors of blackberries, smoke, sweet oak and other berries. Still has that Rosemount "GSM" taste after 18 years.

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• Butzemann wrote: 88 points

  January 15, 2016 - D+0h: cork is completely intact when removing it with a standard pulltap corkscrew, quite a lot of deposit in the teafilter and the bottle, smells of blackberry and forest ground, colour is between purple red and cherry red, we starting drinking at D+10min but it only opened up after 1 hour in the decanter: smells of forest ground and in the background of blackberry, medium body, in the mouth forest ground and acidity, the 15 % alc. are well integrated, the wine is not too dry, but far from sweet, in the aftertaste acidity and pencil lead, good length (30 sec), the pencil lead lingers on the palate afterwards

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• redmancge Likes this wine: 89 points

  January 17, 2015 - Agree with JS1056 note below. A forgotten bottle in cellar that really surprised. Perfect cork and ruby color wine drank really nice. Took about 20-30 to open in glass. A little fruit still there and tannins integrated for smooth drinking with moderate sediment. Finish in one night and drink'em up! Gave an extra point just for the surprise of the wine holding up.

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• JS1056 wrote: 88 points

  November 12, 2014 - What a surprise. I lost track of this wine in the cellar and based on the drinking window on CT thought that it was probably going to disappoint. But just the opposite and honestly very different than I remember previous bottles. Very smooth, integrated tannins with the acidity in total balance, this was very old world. Cigar box, spice and cedar were present and almost all of the fruit was gone, except for a little bit of plum. There was a medium finish. Maybe it was that I had low expectations but this was a really nice wine.
  
  Day 2 - Okay, so the age caught up with the wine, as it really did fall apart by the second day. Not awful, but all of the finesse and style that really made this enjoyable was gone at this point. Balance was lost and acidity was front and center. The flavor profile was still there just in the background.
  Under the circumstances I was happy with what I got out of the bottle. If you have any (and I see over a hundred still in the community cellars) I would drink up and plan on finishing the bottle in one night.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1998
• Type Red
• Producer Rosemount Estate
• Varietal Red Rhone Blend
• Designation GSM
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Australia
• Region South Australia
• SubRegion Fleurieu
• Appellation McLaren Vale
• UPC Code 012894948726

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• In Cellars 160 (58%)
• Consumed 116 (42%)

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