Drinking well now, but will be better in a few years time as it needs to age more. This wine should be able to age for many infinite moons..... This is a beautiful Shiraz, (label reads Syrah). It is definitely very Australian styled, fruits forward, with much sweet spice, white pepper. It is rich & big, yet elegant. I like the clean silhouette in this wine and the clarity of the aroma and palate.
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Bold plum, cassis and licorice, and a subtle hit of vanilla and pepper spice. Blackberry, plum and some blueberry dominates the palate. Length is ample. The tannin is grainy and borders on chewy, and it'd be safe to say this wine has structure to allow further aging. If anything, it may benefit from a little longer in the cellar to mute the acidity a mite. A little milk chocolate late on, and the oak is well integrated. No hurry to drink. Highly recommend decanting.
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A big, opulent and young 94/100 (4.0/5.0) from me. Lauded as the baby brother to the famed Domaine Astralis (akin to Grange v Bin 389). This Syrah hails from the Clarendon Hills Vineyard in McLaren Vale, taken from cuttings of the Astralis Vineyard.
The nose and palate are muscular, with black fruits, aniseed, blueberries, a touch of tar and white pepper. It's very powerful, yet finely balanced even at this young age. At $35 from Langtons, this fine beefy Syrah will surely get better with age.
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Shared with some friends. Probably needed more cellar time, or at least some more time open or a ideally a splash in the decanter, but this got shared around and consumed within a couple hours of it being open. Transparent around the rim, made me think it was going to be a bit lighter... but it's huge. Unbelievably dense in texture, yet with some savoury spice and white pepper to it if I go looking for it. Doesn't offer much length on the aftertaste, just that whack of big biscuity oak flavour. May improve with time. Not very memorable for me, but I probably didn't fully appreciate this due to inebriation and the fact that it was consumed quickly.
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(tasting@ClarendonHills w Alex Bratasiuk) [dry grown] Rich, inky dark purple in glass. Rich, effusive, sweet concentrated nose of rich plums, tall dark florals, violets and roses. Chewy leather, cool-tea-sweetness, savoury beef boullion, sweet herbs, graphite, gunpowder and ironstone. Sweet leather, mushroom, layered, complex and juicy. Long sustained finish, ringing with pure sweet earth. Yummy for their 'generic' syrah!
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4/19/2021 - Gemofwine Likes this wine: 95 Points
Drinking well now, but will be better in a few years time as it needs to age more. This wine should be able to age for many infinite moons.....
This is a beautiful Shiraz, (label reads Syrah). It is definitely very Australian styled, fruits forward, with much sweet spice, white pepper. It is rich & big, yet elegant.
I like the clean silhouette in this wine and the clarity of the aroma and palate.
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9/6/2020 - RobertLA Likes this wine: 92 Points
So much better on second night. Open and alive. Beautiful fruit. Acid restrained. Tannins in the background. Much much better
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9/5/2020 - RobertLA Likes this wine: 91 Points
Unidimentional wine. Acid dominates the fruit. Not particularly enjoyable. Give it a couple of years to see what it’s like
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8/24/2019 - nick.whit Likes this wine: 90 Points
Bold plum, cassis and licorice, and a subtle hit of vanilla and pepper spice. Blackberry, plum and some blueberry dominates the palate. Length is ample. The tannin is grainy and borders on chewy, and it'd be safe to say this wine has structure to allow further aging. If anything, it may benefit from a little longer in the cellar to mute the acidity a mite. A little milk chocolate late on, and the oak is well integrated. No hurry to drink. Highly recommend decanting.
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3/21/2016 - dhammer wrote:
Much too young at this stage. Don't open until 2022 at least. Massive amounts of acidity need to mellow.
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2/19/2016 - Wozza Likes this wine: 94 Points
A big, opulent and young 94/100 (4.0/5.0) from me. Lauded as the baby brother to the famed Domaine Astralis (akin to Grange v Bin 389). This Syrah hails from the Clarendon Hills Vineyard in McLaren Vale, taken from cuttings of the Astralis Vineyard.
The nose and palate are muscular, with black fruits, aniseed, blueberries, a touch of tar and white pepper. It's very powerful, yet finely balanced even at this young age. At $35 from Langtons, this fine beefy Syrah will surely get better with age.
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9/28/2015 - Milliontown wrote: 83 Points
Shared with some friends. Probably needed more cellar time, or at least some more time open or a ideally a splash in the decanter, but this got shared around and consumed within a couple hours of it being open. Transparent around the rim, made me think it was going to be a bit lighter... but it's huge. Unbelievably dense in texture, yet with some savoury spice and white pepper to it if I go looking for it. Doesn't offer much length on the aftertaste, just that whack of big biscuity oak flavour. May improve with time. Not very memorable for me, but I probably didn't fully appreciate this due to inebriation and the fact that it was consumed quickly.
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3/6/2015 - JerM wrote: 95 Points
(tasting@ClarendonHills w Alex Bratasiuk) [dry grown] Rich, inky dark purple in glass. Rich, effusive, sweet concentrated nose of rich plums, tall dark florals, violets and roses. Chewy leather, cool-tea-sweetness, savoury beef boullion, sweet herbs, graphite, gunpowder and ironstone. Sweet leather, mushroom, layered, complex and juicy. Long sustained finish, ringing with pure sweet earth. Yummy for their 'generic' syrah!
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