Community Tasting Note

graemeg wrote:

Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - {screwcap, 12.5%} Quite a deep yellow colour. The nose is has a lanolin, slightly sweaty aroma about it; initially tinged with rubbery reductive characters which graduallly blow off in such a way that I never quite know whether they're gone. Hmmm. The palate is dry, but with honeysuckle and marzipan-type flavours, a touch of that lemon, and still-persistent acid which keeps the wine fairly fresh, despite the generally developed nature of the flavours. It's around medium-bodied; interesting to taste a wine with a relatively dense texture but with no signs of oak maturity at all (this wine sees none, of course). As it sits in the glass there's a grapefruit tinge to the flavour; it's quite even in its presence on the palate, although the finish isn't longer than 'medium length'. Slight concern about the reduction notwithstanding, I'd be happy to give this another 5 years in the cellar at least; Tahbilk's own cellaring recommendations have the 96-99 vintages at peak drinking, I see no reason to dispute that timeline when it comes to the 03.

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