Community Tasting Notes 16

• gharter Likes this wine: 86 points

  March 25, 2023 - Part of a large purchase, PnP. Opens with sweet red fruits, cherry and some spice. Silky smooth mouthfeel. Red berry, cherry, a hint of black fruit and spice. Still has good acidity and a medium finish. Drinks more like a claret than a shiraz at this point. Much better than expected.

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• johnrm Likes this wine: 91 points

  September 16, 2018 - Good colour with some bricking at the edge. Attractive palate when first decanted but left for 3 hours. After standing, it had a good nose with sweet red fruits and some gentle spice. The exceptionally smooth palate showed red berry fruits with some cherry character - almost sweet but with good balance and acidity. Some darker fruits gradually emerged together with spicy notes. Very good with a spicy beef dish and excellent afterwards with more black cherry conserve and cherry stones evident. Still remarkably fresh, given its age. Very long on the palate. Perhaps there was a very slight hint of vegetal character after a few hours but this did not persist; it was the only minor indication of age and did not detract from the pleasure. A high quality wine that took some time to open and has lived and developed for longer than expected. 91+

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• Gedwan Likes this wine: 90 points

  October 19, 2014 - Incredibly fruity for such an aged bottle not meant to last this long. Still good, no great complexity, but very easy drinking.

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• tacvinolindo Likes this wine: 88 points

  November 10, 2013 - This was our second cellared shiraz on the evening and it wasn't as amazing as the Tarapaca Reserva Shiraz but this was almost as good. This was a full bodied wine with a spicy but fruity nose. It had hints of blackberries, strawberries and a little caramel with an anise undertone. It had very little tannins and smooth finish to every sip. Glad we drank it now although it might have been even better a year or so ago.

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• the2grays wrote: 92 points

  September 28, 2010 - very smooth, just as good as the last bottle I tasted over a year ago. still has good balance of blackberry and licorice.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2000
• Type Red
• Producer d'Arenberg
• Varietal Shiraz
• Designation The Footbolt
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Australia
• Region South Australia
• SubRegion Fleurieu
• Appellation McLaren Vale
• UPC Code 767749002039

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• In Cellars 79 (46%)
• Consumed 91 (54%)

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