October 18, 2023 - Great condition for a 19 year old wine. Colour is deep ruby with the slightest touch of garnet. Loads of fruit and spice. Red and black plums and cherries, plum pudding, baked raspberries,dried black cherries, black pepper, rich dark chocolate, hints of leather and tobacco leaf, vanilla, cedar.
Lingering finish with fruit and savoury notes.
High alcohol, medium + to high acid. Full bodied, pronounced flavour intensity.
Will continue to develop in bottle. Enjoy now and drink through to 2030 or 2035. If corks are as intact as this bottle.
August 20, 2023 - At it’s peak or just over the edge, complex tertiary characters with just a little of the primary fruit still showing through. Enjoy! A
July 29, 2023 - Cork, decanted an hour. Rich red cooked red fruit drinking well now.
November 14, 2022 - Decanted for 40 minutes. Lovely balance with well integrated tannins. Cooked red fruit and unmistakable Barossa pepper and spice. Developed well over an hour or so.
June 24, 2020 - Consistent with earlier tasting notes, at sixteen years of age, this is aging gracefully, but starting to show its age with slight signs of diminution of the fruits.
Upon opening it was slightly obtuse with a bit of an edge, but over the course of an hour it opened, softened and became more approachable.
Dark inky purple color, full bodied, thick, chewy layers of aromatic flavors of tangy black fruits, raspberry, black cherry and black currants, accented by tones of clove spice, graphite & hints of creme de cassis on a smooth polished moderate tannin finish.
https://unwindwine.blogspot.com/2020/06/branson-coach-house-barossa-greenock.html
October 9, 2017 - Dark inky purple color, full bodied, thick, chewy layers of aromatic flavors of tangy black fruits, raspberry, black cherry and notes of blueberry, accented by tones of clove spice, graphite & hints of creme de cassis on a smooth polished moderate tannin finish.
https://unwindwine.blogspot.com/2017/10/branson-coach-house-shiraz-single.html
November 4, 2016 - Confused.com with this one. This is Two Hands Bella Garden's sister wine (i.e. Barossa, RRP $60 range) made under the BCH label. Quite a bright, lively purple, still youthful in appearance. 90 mins in the decanter and this was quite tart and unapproachable. 4 hours in it starts opening up a little, 5 and half hours in unfortunately the bottle was emptying, just when it started coming to life.
Quite remarkable really, but then again I stand by my comments/reviews that Bella 04 also needs more time.
Hold this one guys, try again say early 2018.
August 6, 2016 - Dark inky purple color, full bodied, full aromas and flavors of black fruits, a hint of raspberry and blueberry, accented by tones of graphite & mineral on a smooth polished moderate tannin finish.
https://unwindwine.blogspot.com/2016/08/branson-coach-house-barossa-greenock.html
February 20, 2016 - Just great fruit. Mellowed tanins no earthy tones. Just fabulous
October 19, 2015 - Deep garnet color. Still plenty of spice on the pallet but has softened and become better integrated. This has probably aged as well as any Shiraz in this price range save for the 2004 Hazy Blur Baroota