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• graemeg wrote:

  December 30, 2018 - 6 Tasmania wineries Dec-19; 12/27/2018-1/2/2019 (Tasmania): {screwcap, 12.5%, A$65} A late inclusion to contrast with the Lionhart fruit day wine. This comes from the flower day, by contrast. It’s certainly less fruity, with a really earthy quality, nutmeg, dark but mild strawberries. Just medium acid, and perhaps surprisingly lighter, softer, more airy on the palate that the fruit variant. Light body, spicy texture, with low/medium dusty tannins. Medium length finish, a bit on the front palate. For me, a distinct notch below the Lionheart.

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• graemeg wrote:

  January 2, 2016 - 4 Tasmania Wineries Jan-16; 1/2/2016-1/5/2016 (Coal Valley, Tasmania): {screwcap, A$65, 12.5%} Beauregard and Lionheart are two sides of the same coin, being the same pinot grapes picked two days apart and handled identically in the winery (wild ferment in clay amphora). That said, the days were flower and fruit days respectively according to the biodynamic calendar, and the differences are marked. So I’ll post this note against both wines! To me, the flower wine is earthy, vaguely bacterial, and compost-like in character, with a sourness on the palate. The fruit wine is far more focussed and impressive (to me), very much more overtly fruity with red strawberry fruit. The structure is similar between them being light/medium-bodied, dry and dusty, although with soft tannins. Medium –length finish. I would really have liked two big glasses of wine and an hour or so with these offerings to be definitive about them.

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• Vintage 2015
• Type Red
• Producer Domaine Simha
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation Amphora Beauregard
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Australia
• Region Tasmania
• SubRegion Coal River
• Appellation n/a

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