Community Tasting Notes 10

• CamWheeler wrote: 91 points

  September 29, 2022 - Bill & Crew - Offline #3 - One Penny Red: Blind. Punches hard - full on nose and palate with blueberry, apricot, blackberry and citrus peel. Supercharged flavour and density, you might say leave it for 10 years but it will probably still be a huge powerhouse so maybe just enjoy it for what it is now?

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• kostaslonis wrote:

  April 28, 2022 - Torbreck Runrig vertical tasting (home): Variety: 98% Shiraz, 2% Viognier
  Vineyards: 6 Vineyards, assemblage
  Subregions: Lyndoch, Rowland Flat, Moppa, Ebenezer, Light Pass
  Harvest: 18th February through to 23rd March 2016
  Maturation: 30 months on new (50%), second fill and third fill French oak barriques, completing a natural malolactic fermentation in barrel and resting on fine lees throughout maturation to enhance texture
  Analysis: Alc/Vol 15% pH 3.69 Acidity 6.04g/L
  Cellar: 15 to 20 years
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  Tasting from old to new vintages, the bottles were opened at 15.00, double decanted, tasting at 21.00
  The wine shows very spicy character, closer to 2014 with an equal amount of ripe red fruit, cherries, currants, the palate shows again the same balance, sour cherries, ripe red currant, nice balancing acidity, a few coffee and chocolate notes, deceptively lean, medium body and a rather medium to long very tasty finish

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• Cailles wrote: 90 points

  April 3, 2022 - 10x 100 Pts with the Wine Advocate Team: That‘s a tough one. On one hand, this is so well structured, ultra fine and with a quite feather like texture, highly complex and precise. On the other hand it is just completely overripe and a bit too much, too intense. I didn‘t finish the glass. 90 pts for all the technical excellence outside the ripeness level. If you love that ripeness, then it maybe can be a 95 pts wine, which what Czerwinski certainly had in mind. But Australian Shiraz doesn‘t have to be overripe, so not a convincing call by him.
  
  TN: Very intense, expressive nose with very ripe dark berries, mixed with coffee notes, licorice, and some hints of herbs. This is a far too ripe for my taste. On the palate there is a lot herbs, licorice, christmas spices, gingerbread, hints of coffee. The complexity and precision are off the charts. The structure is superb with so much finesse, lightness, super fine tannins and high, round acidity. Long and very balanced. Just far, far too ripe for my taste. Much riper than other RunRig vintages or other high-end Aussie Shiraz.
  
  Decanting: This was sitting in the glass for some time. Open and singing right from the start. I don‘t think it needs a long decant.

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• sirpat00 wrote: 96 points

  April 2, 2022 - Tasted at the Matter of Taste Zurich 1,000 Points Masterclass. Red earth over limestone soils. Asian 5 Spice, Christmas spices add further sweetness to the concentrated cherry, bramble berry and raspberry fruit. Additional spices of vanilla as well as intriguing char coal undertones. To round things off, minty high notes add a fresher angle. A fresh and crisp palate with an endless finish. Powerful yet weightless. I have scored this even higher in the past in a stand-alone setting, but in a this particular line-up it was more difficult to shine.

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• Dwongl Likes this wine: 98 points

  December 31, 2021 - Inky impenetrable purple. Lovely cassis and dark cherry flavours. Great balance and fine tannins. Lovely long finish.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2016
• Type Red
• Producer Torbreck
• Varietal Shiraz Blend
• Designation RunRig
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Australia
• Region South Australia
• SubRegion Barossa
• Appellation Barossa Valley
• UPC Codes 9333343000354, 9333343003058, 9333343003430

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• Pending Delivery 26 (2%)
• In Cellars 1,134 (86%)
• Consumed 154 (12%)

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