Saturday, May 26, 2012 - (a winter's eve slow roast with Mich&Bo and Newan) Quiet nose, which opens up with time to reveal musky vegetal notes, tomato stem, toasted bell pepper, dark plums, faded cassis. The taste is a tad empty, overshadowed by structural puckery tannins amidst fractured impressions of floral and licorice sweetness, bitter smoke, dark spices, cedar, cigarbox, and again green stems and mushrooms. Short finish, ending on some ferrous notes and characteristic Coonawarra eucalypts. Quite a different personality from my previous bottle.
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