Community Tasting Notes 21

• Milliontown wrote: 88 points

  May 23, 2020 - Strong cork here. Decanted one hour. Fair bit of sediment. Some light bricking but still ruby red core to it. Transparent too.
  Some leafy/green notes upfront, bit of oak spice, and a bit of a feral undergrowth/mushroomy aroma in there. Sort of a musty old cupboard thing, the way old Aussie reds go sometimes. Some white pepper / beetroot / blood plum notes emerge with time. Palate is quite lithe and transparent, acidity is borderline shrill though. It's quite piercing after a while and really needs food. I feel like the fruit has faded away somewhat leaving a bit of a skeletal structure. Still kind of hanging on. I don't see the brett others have pointed out. I thought it was kind of enjoyable still, maybe more in an academic sense.

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• Fractalage Likes this wine:

  September 25, 2019 - Inital nose of dirty bathtub old fruit. Hardly any nose at all, but musty old fruit.
  First palate was wow, way too old tart with vinegar type palate with tannic spices on the finish.
  As it opened touches of chocolate and espresso came out.
  3 hours later it gave way to eathy tarry flavors and cut roasted meats very well.
  Oak was detactable after 4 hours.
  There was orange rhind, raspberries, tart cherries, chocolate with flowers galore, violets and concentrated violets wiht a musky oak full body backbone.

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• rmarkey Likes this wine: 85 points

  November 20, 2016 - Very good, Cabernet, Shiraz, Malbec, merlot, 12.5% alc.
  Colour: dark dusty berry
  Bouquet: biscuits, developed and maybe a bit tired, vegetable, blackberry, sour
  Palate: devleloped, blackberry and spice and white pepper, aniseed, dusty, clean finish, slightly short. Past best.
  November 2016

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• GavinMelvin wrote: 88 points

  November 18, 2016 - Spicy white pepper on the nose. Most of the fruit has dissipated leaving fine tannins and a very short finish. We drank on a warm night probably didn't help but its definitely on the way out.

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• Drinking Trees wrote:

  October 7, 2016 - Nose shows light notes of strawberry, sherry, nuts, and autumn leaves. Palate shows flavours of strawberry and red cherry, with a hint of apricot. The structure is medium-bodied and mouth-filling, but totally disintegrates in the mouth, giving way to sharp acid with notes of lemon and white grapefruit. Seems to be falling apart, but doing so quite enjoyably.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1998
• Type Red
• Producer Virgin Hills
• Varietal Red Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Australia
• Region Victoria
• SubRegion Port Phillip
• Appellation Macedon Ranges
• UPC Code 9322764001460

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• In Cellars 106 (43%)
• Consumed 142 (57%)

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