Community Tasting Note

KeithAkers wrote:

Saturday, June 7, 2008 - Fight night wines (my house): nose: this has taken a while to come around( it had been opened for nearly 8 hours) and this nose is deep and sumptuous. Not as fruit forward as the 05, but very deep that is filled with loads of blackberries, cranberries, camphor, smoke, anise, black cherries. a black hole of a nose with northern rhone-like qualities while still be aussie in style, this is just a massive nose that has come around and is insanely deep

taste: still very young as the tannins and acidity take away from the mid palate a bit, but this is just balanced black fruit down to its core. Blackberries, Black Cherry, cranberry, raspberry, smoke, camphor, and anise just give off greatly balanced

overall: this can and most likely will pass the 05. This has some serious aging possibility and will certainly get better. This needed a lot of time to open up, but when it did, it really became an awesome wine. Really long and big feel with an extremely long black fruited finish

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