Community Tasting Notes 13

• SirJ Likes this wine: 94 points

  December 29, 2023 - A nice evening yesterday with cheese & wine, pitted two Syrah / Shiraz wines against each other. And a third wine from my personal favorite Utopos Winery.
  
  K Vintner's Royal City Syrah 2016
  Standish Wine Co The Standish 2017
  
  A duel that Standish won quite easily on the first night. Clearer structure, more homogeneous and a fantastic finish. Royal has more animalic and paprika notes which created a bit of disharmony, still a good wine but could do better. Set it aside and opened another favorite.
  
  Utopos Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
  
  Drank this vintage June-22, but what a development 😳. Have said it before, hard to buy a better Cab for about €50. Fantastic fruit, cassis, black cherries, cedar and a little sweeter tobacco.
  
  Day two Royal City showed itself from a better side, better harmony, toned down paprika notes. But Standish just gasses on, complex, dark fruit that's sublime nonetheless. Utopos shows that this vintage will grow and become even better with a few more years in the cellar.

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• klang wrote:

  December 27, 2023 - A lovely wine, an absolute ringer for a decent Cornas, with savoury, Northern Rhone notes to the fruit, miles from a typical Barossa Shiraz. Medium bodied, with decent intensity and fine-grained tannins on a medium to long finish. No rush to drink this - should become more interesting with a bit more age.

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• TMOVino2 Likes this wine: 95 points

  December 16, 2023 - Drank at holiday party, no formal notes. Similar to prior experience. Phenomenal wine. Everyone loved it.

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• WyattTheSomm Likes this wine: 95 points

  January 21, 2023 - THE DEFINITION OF BAROSSA SHIRAZ
  
  Had with a steak dinner for a birthday celebration and it only just began to open up after an hour decant but still drank and paired wonderfully with the meal!
  
  Just amazing purity of the fruit along with its quality here mostly Dark like blackberry, cherry with exotic spices and a touch of chocolate from 32 months of French oak. The texture is ultra fine and the tannins show absolute poise regardless of its state.
  
  I found it to be clear the wine had a exceptional life ahead of it with length, depth of fruit and near perfect concentration (Not over extracted) showing the echelon this wine belongs in… 2017 produced a wonderful wine however it is quite overshadowed by the 16,15,and 18 but don’t pass them up if you see them!

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• henrygjeffreys Likes this wine:

  November 12, 2022 - Decanted the day before but still pretty impenetrable at first but it slowly opened up over the evening.
  With it's dark fruit, almost bitter olive, and strong herbal/ floral notes - it reminded me of a Cornas more than a Barossa shiraz. Ideally this needs year but potentially very good indeed.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2017
• Type Red
• Producer The Standish Wine Company
• Varietal Shiraz
• Designation The Standish
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Australia
• Region South Australia
• SubRegion Barossa
• Appellation Barossa Valley

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• Pending Delivery 9 (1%)
• In Cellars 528 (83%)
• Consumed 101 (16%)

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