Community Tasting Notes 11

• Lordswood wrote: flawed

  April 28, 2019 - Nice texture and blackcurrant / dark fruit notes, nice acidity and overall quite light on the palate. We both wondered whether it was slightly corked, but maybe it was the smoke-taint. Who knows, but a shame.

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• king-bing wrote:

  December 31, 2017 - 12.5% abv. Fine, but no more. Classic Cabernet notes, but fairly low key and gentle. I didn't detect any real smoke taint.

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• graemeg wrote:

  September 3, 2012 - NobleRottersSydney - Alliteration night (Alio's, Surry Hills): [cork, 12.3%] {Gordon} This wine was roundly abused for bushfire smoke taint on release by Jeremy Oliver, who claimed the late proprietor Carrodus would never have sold it himself. Cash flow is king I suppose. Decanted 2 hours prior to consumption, the nose is initially pleasant enough, with sweet, rather simple blackcurrant fruit, but I couldn’t escape a distinct eucalypt note that instantly began to impress itself as smokiness. The power of positive sugestion is very strong! The palate isn’t unpleasant; perhaps a touch acrid; only medium-bodied, with some low chalky tannins. Medium length finish, although the back-palate is laregly absent. It’s OK, but not what you’d expect from YY, and its inadequacies were clearly demonstrated by the following 2004 wine. As for this, drink up.

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• Fantomas Likes this wine: 90 points

  January 20, 2012 - Nice nose, red fruit and less oak than the nose suggests. Red currant, strawberry jam, cedar and white pepper on the palate, some wet earth, silky tannins and medium length.

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• dustbuddy wrote: 93 points

  December 3, 2011 - Very exciting wine. The nose is full of blackberry and pencil lead aromas with toast and vanilla from the oak. The palate has excellent fresh acidity leading into a long finish.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2007
• Type Red
• Producer Yarra Yering
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation Dry Red N°1
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Australia
• Region Victoria
• SubRegion Port Phillip
• Appellation Yarra Valley
• UPC Code 9339661001042

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• In Cellars 100 (56%)
• Consumed 77 (44%)

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