Community Tasting Notes 17

• KenK Likes this wine: 93 points

  November 11, 2023 - This was a showy fruit bomb even after 20 years in bottle. Big ripe red and black berry flavors rich and concentrated with a lush nearly milky texture. A throwback to a time when these were all the rage. A glass is a treat, but dinking a bottle of this wold be work. This will outlive me. Pixca Lunch

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• Montesquieu Likes this wine: 94 points

  November 11, 2021 - Third time trying. Another good bottle. Provocative since it's past its prime for this style, but still very good.

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• Montesquieu Likes this wine: 95 points

  October 14, 2021 - This was a much better bottle than my last, so I'll give it a formal score. It was delicious but, for my tastes, definitely on the decline from its youth. This isn't made to improve with age the way a Grange or Hill of Grace would. No stewed notes like the last bottle. I have two bottles remaining and will drink them sooner not later.

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• Montesquieu Does not like this wine:

  October 2, 2021 - Based on the recent reviews here on CT, I took a gamble and bought 4 bottles of this wine. That gamble didn't pay off. It might once have been a great Shiraz in its bombastic primary fruit phase, but today, those fruits are stewed. Unless mine was just a bad bottle, this wine was made to enjoy younger. Its secondary flavors are stewed and tired, not mushroomy and beautiful. I have three more bottles. If any of those turn out better, I'll return and modify this judgment. Withholding a formal score; it would have been an 87 if I didn't.

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• fokker Likes this wine: 100 points

  November 18, 2020 - This was stored in the top compartment of one of my wine fridges that the upper 1/5 rubber seal of the door receded. This renders the whole fridge more humid and the labels of the wines can be mouldy, but the temperature inside can still be around 14 degree C, except the upper compartment.
  Anyway, the wine was opened for 5 hours to breathe.
  Colour is not the dark purple Ozzie shiraz you expect, but a see-through ruby bright red without any bricking. The nose was sublime with red and black fruits and orchards. The taste was like eating one of the Roundtree raspberry/blackcurrant gummies, very fruit sweet but without the sugary sweetness. Slight mintiness. The texture was velvety and all the tannins had melted away/settled. And the finish lasted forever. The immediate thought was this was very very similar to the 1983 Hill of Grace, or the 78 Chapelle.
  This was drunk after the 82 Haut Brion (which is superb), and my friends all went WOW.
  Interestingly enough, previous tasting notes on this wine written by others have mentioned mocha, coffee, tea, smokiness etc.. I found none of these on the night, but just bright sweet fruit and NO heaviness. Maybe this is due to extra few years of aging.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2001
• Type Red
• Producer Greenock Creek
• Varietal Shiraz
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Creek Block
• Country Australia
• Region South Australia
• SubRegion Barossa
• Appellation Barossa Valley

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• Pending Delivery 5 (1%)
• In Cellars 249 (68%)
• Consumed 112 (31%)

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