March 11, 2024 - Consumed at winery in Yarra Valley. Appearance: Clear, medium ruby. Nose: Clean, medium+ intensity with developing aromas of black fruit - cassis and blackberry, eucalyptus, herbs, and capsicum. Palate: Dry, medium acid, medium+ tannin is starting to soften and integrate, medium+ body, medium+ intensity, 13.5% abv with developing flavors of black fruit, capsicum, and spice with a long finish. Nearing, but likely a few years from, peak. Can drink now with a short decant, better in 1-2 years and a decade beyond.
February 8, 2024 - Yarra, Mornington, Geelong wine tour day two (Yarra Valley): Tar and red fruit, herbaceous notes, a little tomato leaf and green capsicum, a slight hard green note. Meh nose. Medium plus intensity acidity, red hued fruit, slightly sour green tannins are slightly unripe. Nah.
January 16, 2024 - Peppery smooth very well balanced. Could have aged for a lot longer but drinking very well now.
October 13, 2023 - maroon plum red, medium clarity, ruby
Nose: plum, black cherry, black current, violets, pipe tobacco, leather, vanilla, cinnamon, clove, thyme, oak
Pal: plum, black currents, tobacco, leather, tar, vanilla, dark chocolate, touch cinnamon, clove, thyme, minerals, oak
Feel: medium, full, touch bitter
Finish: long
TC9
August 2, 2023 - Way too young, but will be great with enough time.
May 12, 2023 - Still a bit young, wait a couple of years, but very promising in it’s deep, dark fruits and lovely chocolate/tobacco composition.
February 12, 2023 - No notes taken. Splash decantered and consumed over the next hour or so. Too young now, but could work out well. Packed with fruit and good tannic backbone. Hold 3-5y. 92-94+
August 3, 2022 - NobleRottersSydney - Yarra Yering (Fix, St James, Sydney): {screwcap, 13.5%} CabS, Merlot, Malbec and PV in a 70/18/8/4 ratio. Tobacco, cassis, black olive. Starting to develop a little. Fairly astringent palate with medium chalky tannins. Seems to be a sort of vanilla/camphor note on the palate; yes, there’s black fruit too, but it’s confused and bitty somehow. Needs time, certainly, but it feels like there’s a hard underlying greenness that’s here to stay. Medium body, medium length finish. But not really convincing.
July 22, 2022 - Needs time in the glass. Probably needs another 5-10 years in the bottle. Still a bit closed. Really opened my eyes to the potential of a cool climate Cab Sav blend.
February 7, 2022 - Purchased feb 22 $100.00 Costco