Community Tasting Notes 6

• graemeg wrote:

  October 20, 2019 - {cork, 14%} Deep yellow. Advanced nose of marzipan, nougat, lots of spicy French oak, a hint of apricot. The palate is a fruit salad mix of sweet decaying pineapple fruit flavours, butter, oak, nougat. Full-bodied, but really edgy, like sweet fruits have been blended with vanilla, cedar and past-expiry tropical fruits. There’s still sufficiently vibrant acid; there’s nothing wrong with the structure, but the flavours are so weirdly like an aged fruit salad on drugs it’s hard to know what to make of it. Has a medium/long finish, which is good or bad depending on your response to the flavours. Odd. Ready to drink (as the back label promises with its 7-10 year cellaring recommendation), possibly will age longer, but you’d need to have tastes matching the proprietor’s wife, since it was made for her.

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• graemeg wrote:

  August 5, 2013 - NobleRottersSydney - Best of Tasmania (Verde, East Sydney): {cork, 14%} The Stoney Vineyard was first planted in 1973 by George Park. It was bought in 1989 by Swiss IT executive H Peter Althaus who has since made the wines, aiming to match great red ‘Bordeaux’ in the Coal Valley. The best wines from the estate now wear the ‘Domaine A’ label. The ‘Lady A’ is an oaked sauvignon blanc inspired by Chateau Margaux’s Pavillion Blanc, a favourite wine of Peter’s wife Ruth, and was first made in 1996. It derives from a one-hectare plot in the vineyard, and spends around 12 months in oak after 3 months battonage. The back label recommends up to ten years’ cellaring. Production is miniscule – around 200 dozen – and I reckon it’s Australia’s most expensive sauvignon. Mid-lemon. Developing nose which has an intriguing mix of seashells and granite, hard-to-pin-down oak nuances, and a tangy pungent sauvignon gooseberriness. Wooded sauvignon is a pretty rare beast in this part of the world; I wouldn’t say this was a hit at the table, although I rather liked it; it was like drinking a pot of battleship-grey paint. The palate was more steely and mineral-like and less oaky than I expected; but the oak does fill out the palate, and gives it solid medium-bodied weight; there are even gentle powdery tannins pitching into the mix. It’s not much of a cocktail wine, but it lifted hugely with the antipasto entrees. A balanced, medium-length finish avoids heat. Ought to happily live another 5 years.

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• chatters wrote:

  April 14, 2011 - Lots of oak, cream, butter over herbaceous tones and passion fruit. Not sure I like it

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• tendring wrote: 88 points

  April 4, 2011 - Wine Education Service - Tasmania (LSE): Pale and bright.
  Pleasant toasty nose with some aniseed and teabags.
  Tastes like perry or cider, a bit bland, not for me.

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• hadwin wrote: 89 points

  April 4, 2011 - WES - Tasmania (LSE Holbourn): Golden, clear and bright. Touch of oak on the nose. Slightly closed. Straw? Stewed apple and honey? Dry, very smooth. Rich, long and balanced.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2007
• Type White
• Producer Domaine A
• Varietal Sauvignon Blanc
• Designation Lady A
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Australia
• Region Tasmania
• SubRegion Coal River
• Appellation n/a

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