Community Tasting Notes 6

• Alykhan V Likes this wine: 91 points

  November 23, 2022 - Lovely wine, with plenty of time left
  Still noticeable dried black cherry notes on the nose, with savoury notes creeping in. Delightful now and for at least the next 5-7 years

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• hargy Likes this wine: 91 points

  December 3, 2017 - beautifully made wine mature and probably at its peak - lovely

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• honest bob wrote: 87 points

  November 28, 2012 - From 75cl. The glue-and-cork-bits "Diam" closure, which I am holding in my hand as I write, is unpleasantly gluey-sticky to the touch; it has absorbed about 1,5mm wine; it is spongey at the end. Anyone who tells you these composite closures are a plausible option for sealing fine wine has a commercial interest at stake. The wine in this bottle survived a little better than my previous sample; what remains speaks of a well-made, slender, pure red fruit-style PN with strong acidity and no perceptible tannins. Drink up before it disintegrates. 87P(?)

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• honest bob wrote: 88 points

  July 31, 2012 - From 75cl, nasty composite-artificial "cork" closure to which I attribute the premature senility of this otherwise well-made wine (bought from an impeccable source, and properly cellared). This may once have been outstanding, now it is just a pleasant, soft, fading PN of the darker-fruit persuasion, with fading acid balance and only residual resonance or persistence. I should have drunk this 2 years ago, or to be more precise: it should have been bottled with a screw cap or at least a good quality proper cork instead of this absurd travesty of a composite "cork"-glue closure. Why did so many top rank wineries fall for this non-innovation of the early 2000s? Perhaps it was aggressive marketing by the likes of Diam and Nomacorc. Having wasted just as much money over the years on premium wine ruined after 5-6 years storage under a variety of artificial "cork" closures as on genuinely "corked" bottles with natural cork closures, I can only hope that the screw-cap Gospel will prevail, and wine-makers who cultivate a reductive style will go back to using real cork, taking the trouble to identify reliable suppliers and monitor their products dilligently. Drink up! 88P, and falling.

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• RBRG wrote: 94 points

  May 1, 2011 - Top shelf - wonderfully expressive of its place - Mornington. Beautifully balanced and evolved with excellent texture which is something I look for. Dark and light cherry dominates but with proper hints of undergrowth and a nice long finish. This has now become a personal favourite - I really like this wine

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2006
• Type Red
• Producer Kooyong
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Haven
• Country Australia
• Region Victoria
• SubRegion Port Phillip
• Appellation Mornington Peninsula

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• In Cellars 16 (34%)
• Consumed 31 (66%)

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