Community Tasting Notes 9

• graemeg wrote:

  December 23, 2023 - {screwcap, 13.5%} Slightly bricking tinge to the rim, betraying its age. Developing, gorgeous cabernet nose of currants, herbs, cedary oak, and a choco-mint hint. Palate is cool and balanced, with medium acidity, low/medium tannins. Flavour tails off a little beyond the mid-palate, but this is gently impressive and beguiling. Fruit-driven, polished, black-tinged in flavour and following the lead of the bouquet. Medium/full weight, and a medium -long, slightly patchy, but still very seductive finish. These are nit-picking criticisms through. This is lovely. Can be kept, not sure it’ll still improve from now though.

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• mphatic wrote:

  August 10, 2021 - Screwcap, 13.5% alc. Dense, dark red with fuchsia at rim.
  
  Whoa, that’s a nose. Evocatively rich yet harmonised cocoa, tobacco, blackcurrant, cola, and fresh mint notes. Toasty/malty oak notes.
  Medium-full in weight, and with plentiful dusty tannins. Good length.
  
  Opinion: Solid, youthful Cabernet. Enjoyable to drink now, with a captivating aroma, and it should develop positively for many years to come. Lost some aromatic appeal on Day 2. Nice to see alcohol below 14%.

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• RieslingFanatic Likes this wine: 94 points

  July 8, 2018 - Friend gave me a half bottle filled with this. He opened it Sunday, I was given the half bottle the following Wednesday. Felt like the wine has only just started a long journey - still almost raw and primal in its tannin structure, dark fruits (cassis, hints of blackberry) and some mint notes meaning the region was pretty easy to pick. But what length! Needs so much more time.

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• RobertLA Likes this wine: 92 points

  January 7, 2018 - Initially only a one hour decant. Deep in colour with aroma of red fruit. Medium bodied wine with delicate flavours. Acid has receded and the tannins areintergrated. Balanced and harmonious. Moderate finish. Greatly improved on the second night. Really needs at least two hours decanting before drinking.

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• Softie wrote:

  April 6, 2016 - Well, here we are three years after my last bottle, which was three years after its predecessor.
  
  My views are remarkably similar to my last note, with one qualification: I suggest you form your own view as to whether the oak is, at 11 years of age, still a tad intrusive. On the unambiguously positive side, the structure remains impeccable. My next (and last) bottle could wait another three years, without doubt.
  
  (Two suggestions: don't serve this below 19C - it may accentuate the oak; and give it an hour's air: it's structure is so good, it's improving with time. Let's see what nights two and three conjure up.)
  
  Night 3: in great shape: structure remains substantial, tasty fruit and lacking any sense of oxidation [mind you, it's been in the fridge].

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2005
• Type Red
• Producer Wynns Coonawarra Estate
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation Single Vineyard
• Vineyard Messenger Vineyard
• Country Australia
• Region South Australia
• SubRegion Limestone Coast
• Appellation Coonawarra
• UPC Codes 9300620000161, 9300620000895

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• In Cellars 97 (66%)
• Consumed 50 (34%)

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