NobleRottersSydney - New South Wales (Fix, St James, Sydney): {12%} [Graeme] Cork-sealed semillon at thirty; roll the dice. Opened at dinner. Minimal ullage, and cork only damp about 30% up from the bottom. Medium gold, still clear and bright. Honey-on-toast nose – jackpot! Creamy-textured but very much alive palate. Sweet-tinged yellow fruit, toasty and smoky, no sign of botrytis. Lots of dimension to the flavours here. Medium weight, long, even, dry palate. A triumph. Final bottle of a 6-pack I bought last century – kept the highest level bottle til last, so I expected it to be decent. Well-kept/corked bottles will be fine for a while yet.
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Honey, butter, toast over slight green apple on the nose. Tart green apple with honeyed and buttery notes on the palate…just really good. Lovely. A wonderful example of a mature Hunter semillon.
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Christmas Day 2014 (My place, parramatta, sydney): From Coravin. Medium plus intensity aromas of honey, toast, butter, slight apple and even apricot and spice. Superb nose. More muted on the palate but with similar flavours as the aromas on the nose. very good indeed and in excellent condition.
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Yellow gold. Fragrant lemon curd and toast. Flavours follow nose with lemon curd coupled with straw, sweet citrus fruits and dried herbs. Smooth and tangy. Drinking nicely, fading gracefully.
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Tyrrell's Vat 1 Vertical (Bentley Hotel, London): Deepest colour, golden Slightest spritz, masses of honeysuckle on the nose Very full bodied, rich strong honey Exotic fruit on midpalate, blending into an ily finish Nicely mature, low acid on finish, shorter than 1994/5
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WLDG / Iverson offline (Pazzo, Surry Hills): Lovely tight honey-on-toast nose. Acid on palate is soft yet forceful. Medium body only, with super balance across the palate. Plenty of time left for this wine, I think.
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NobleRottersSydney - Hunter Valley (+Steliano Cusmiani, Bimbadgen) (Lucio's, Paddington): 2 bottles of this. The first is a straw yellow, yet presents soapy vanillan flavours, and seems to have rather lost interest. Appears to be a wine in decline. The Aged Release, this spent it’s first 5 years in Tyrrells own cellars. The 2nd bottle’s label suggests a private bin wine which lived who-knows-where until I bought it in 98. This is a much darker yellow, yet has lovely toasty honey flavours and aromas. It’s still fresh, yet developed, and with super palate length. Weird!
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Only just moving to mid-straw, still with plenty of green. Some lemon-lime flavours, but this wine really seemds to be in a dip. The initial fruit is gently fading, but there is only a hint so far of the secondary characteristics. Beginning to fill out on the palate, with gopod length, but has many years ahead. Save remaining winers for 2007 at least.
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10/13/2021 - graemeg wrote:
NobleRottersSydney - New South Wales (Fix, St James, Sydney): {12%} [Graeme] Cork-sealed semillon at thirty; roll the dice. Opened at dinner. Minimal ullage, and cork only damp about 30% up from the bottom. Medium gold, still clear and bright. Honey-on-toast nose – jackpot! Creamy-textured but very much alive palate. Sweet-tinged yellow fruit, toasty and smoky, no sign of botrytis. Lots of dimension to the flavours here. Medium weight, long, even, dry palate. A triumph. Final bottle of a 6-pack I bought last century – kept the highest level bottle til last, so I expected it to be decent. Well-kept/corked bottles will be fine for a while yet.
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10/31/2019 - chbeaumont wrote: 95 Points
Golden sheen; classic nose waxy; taffeta-like texture, effortless poise; finishes in positive manner. Indestructible. Brilliant.
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2/11/2019 - Parko82 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Wow. Still going strong...
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4/22/2015 - chatters wrote:
Honey, butter, toast over slight green apple on the nose. Tart green apple with honeyed and buttery notes on the palate…just really good. Lovely. A wonderful example of a mature Hunter semillon.
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12/25/2014 - chatters wrote:
Christmas Day 2014 (My place, parramatta, sydney): From Coravin. Medium plus intensity aromas of honey, toast, butter, slight apple and even apricot and spice. Superb nose. More muted on the palate but with similar flavours as the aromas on the nose. very good indeed and in excellent condition.
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2/6/2010 - Vini Ciclismo Likes this wine: 89 Points
Yellow gold.
Fragrant lemon curd and toast.
Flavours follow nose with lemon curd coupled with straw, sweet citrus fruits and dried herbs. Smooth and tangy. Drinking nicely, fading gracefully.
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6/14/2005 - Russell Faulkner wrote:
Tyrrell's Vat 1 Vertical (Bentley Hotel, London): Deepest colour, golden
Slightest spritz, masses of honeysuckle on the nose
Very full bodied, rich strong honey
Exotic fruit on midpalate, blending into an ily finish
Nicely mature, low acid on finish, shorter than 1994/5
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3/15/2005 - graemeg wrote:
WLDG / Iverson offline (Pazzo, Surry Hills): Lovely tight honey-on-toast nose. Acid on palate is soft yet forceful. Medium body only, with super balance across the palate. Plenty of time left for this wine, I think.
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4/5/2004 - graemeg wrote:
NobleRottersSydney - Hunter Valley (+Steliano Cusmiani, Bimbadgen) (Lucio's, Paddington): 2 bottles of this. The first is a straw yellow, yet presents soapy vanillan flavours, and seems to have rather lost interest. Appears to be a wine in decline. The Aged Release, this spent it’s first 5 years in Tyrrells own cellars. The 2nd bottle’s label suggests a private bin wine which lived who-knows-where until I bought it in 98. This is a much darker yellow, yet has lovely toasty honey flavours and aromas. It’s still fresh, yet developed, and with super palate length. Weird!
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10/8/2001 - graemeg wrote:
Only just moving to mid-straw, still with plenty of green. Some lemon-lime flavours, but this wine really seemds to be in a dip. The initial fruit is gently fading, but there is only a hint so far of the secondary characteristics. Beginning to fill out on the palate, with gopod length, but has many years ahead. Save remaining winers for 2007 at least.
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