Appearance: deep Ruby Nose: medium plus intensity; aromas of toast, tobacco, cloves, blueberry, dark plum, dark cherry, cassis, black olive, meaty. It’s developing. Palate: dry, high acidity, high tannins chalky, high alcohol, full body, medium plus flavour intensity, not as complex as on the nose. Medium plus finish. Overall, it’s a very good wine. Can drink now, has potential for further ageing. Delicious wine. Some development on the nose. The palate is not as distinctive or defined at this stage, but the finish is quite persistent. Great with steak!
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{screwcap, 13.5%} Deep garnet. Largely youthful nose of leafy basil, blackberries, touch of cedar oak. Palate is sweetly ripe in a new world way, avoiding dead grape flavours, with blackberry jam flavours, soft oak, low/medium acidity and gently dusty low/medium tannins. Medium weight, with lots of presence and flavour up front, but it struggles to follow through with depth of flavour and length of finish. Medium length finish at best. Will hold, not sure there’s any true development of complexity to come. 12% merlot, 6% Malbec and the rest cab sav. You get the sense that after all the other Treasury premium brands have had their go at Coonawarra fruit, someone picks through the leftovers for this tribute to the 20th century...
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Appearance: clear medium ruby Nose: clean medium plus intensity, aromas of blackcurrant, tomato leaf, toast, cedar, violet, earthiness, truffle, red cherry, black olive, black plum, licorice, sweet spice. It’s developing. Palate: dry, high acidity, medium plus tannins, medium alcohol, medium plus body, medium plus flavour intensity, chocolate coming through. The finish is medium plus. Overall, it’s very good. Can drink now but has potential for further ageing.
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Whistestop Hunter tour (Hunter Valley): Ahh, smells like Aussie Ripe Bordeaux blend. Blackcurrant, berry, oaky spice over cream, vanilla and slight pyrazine Also some ripe black and blue plums. In the mouth it's juicy with a similar fruit profile here. Tannins are grainy and drying but the ripe fruit persist and there is plenty of alcohol warmth on the finish. It is what it is.
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Coonawarra Roadshow (Ivy, George Street, Sydney): confected blackcurrant, slight rhubarb as well, rather contradictorily, cedar and spice, cream and vanilla. In the mouth it's juicy, the fruit is more savoury and the tannins dry things out a bit on the finish which, gain, introduces some alcohol heat. Hmm
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2014 Trio Release Dinner - June 2016: This came in second for the '14 trio for me. My wife prefers lighter reds and ranked this as her pick of the night, given the lighter body. It was approachable, albeit a little one dimensional. The '06 Pyrus was tired and well past its best, this shows that you're best getting on Pyrus young.
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8/11/2021 - Jason Wu Likes this wine: 93 Points
Appearance: deep Ruby
Nose: medium plus intensity; aromas of toast, tobacco, cloves, blueberry, dark plum, dark cherry, cassis, black olive, meaty. It’s developing.
Palate: dry, high acidity, high tannins chalky, high alcohol, full body, medium plus flavour intensity, not as complex as on the nose. Medium plus finish.
Overall, it’s a very good wine. Can drink now, has potential for further ageing.
Delicious wine. Some development on the nose. The palate is not as distinctive or defined at this stage, but the finish is quite persistent. Great with steak!
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2/5/2021 - graemeg wrote:
{screwcap, 13.5%} Deep garnet. Largely youthful nose of leafy basil, blackberries, touch of cedar oak. Palate is sweetly ripe in a new world way, avoiding dead grape flavours, with blackberry jam flavours, soft oak, low/medium acidity and gently dusty low/medium tannins. Medium weight, with lots of presence and flavour up front, but it struggles to follow through with depth of flavour and length of finish. Medium length finish at best. Will hold, not sure there’s any true development of complexity to come. 12% merlot, 6% Malbec and the rest cab sav. You get the sense that after all the other Treasury premium brands have had their go at Coonawarra fruit, someone picks through the leftovers for this tribute to the 20th century...
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7/4/2020 - Saferiat Does not like this wine: 80 Points
Way beyond peak.
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1/18/2020 - Jason Wu Likes this wine: 92 Points
Appearance: clear medium ruby
Nose: clean medium plus intensity, aromas of blackcurrant, tomato leaf, toast, cedar, violet, earthiness, truffle, red cherry, black olive, black plum, licorice, sweet spice. It’s developing.
Palate: dry, high acidity, medium plus tannins, medium alcohol, medium plus body, medium plus flavour intensity, chocolate coming through. The finish is medium plus.
Overall, it’s very good. Can drink now but has potential for further ageing.
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11/28/2017 - chatters wrote:
Whistestop Hunter tour (Hunter Valley): Ahh, smells like Aussie Ripe Bordeaux blend. Blackcurrant, berry, oaky spice over cream, vanilla and slight pyrazine Also some ripe black and blue plums. In the mouth it's juicy with a similar fruit profile here. Tannins are grainy and drying but the ripe fruit persist and there is plenty of alcohol warmth on the finish. It is what it is.
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8/12/2016 - chatters wrote:
Coonawarra Roadshow (Ivy, George Street, Sydney): confected blackcurrant, slight rhubarb as well, rather contradictorily, cedar and spice, cream and vanilla. In the mouth it's juicy, the fruit is more savoury and the tannins dry things out a bit on the finish which, gain, introduces some alcohol heat. Hmm
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6/25/2016 - Jimmy_D wrote: 89 Points
2014 Trio Release Dinner - June 2016: This came in second for the '14 trio for me. My wife prefers lighter reds and ranked this as her pick of the night, given the lighter body. It was approachable, albeit a little one dimensional. The '06 Pyrus was tired and well past its best, this shows that you're best getting on Pyrus young.
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