Easter Sunday dinner - decanted for an hour and opened beautifully. Three years ago a bottle from the same case was closed and a little disappointing, but this was terrific. Slight Hunter Valley leathery flavours running under the shiraz pepper with great length. Still deep colour and full flavour but hard to see it getting better. A Graveyard at its peak.
Opened with a 1998 Kalimna 28 - the 389 so much younger, still deep colour, all red at the rim, aged characters only just developing, opened but not decanted for 30mins before drinking, still needed another 30 mins to start releasing fruit flavours - this bottle shiraz flavours clearly dominant. Very nice drinking and absolutely no rush to open other bottles. A long life ahead for those well corked.
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2000 Brokenwood Shiraz Graveyard
3/27/2016 - Hagaprod Likes this wine: 95 Points
Easter Sunday dinner - decanted for an hour and opened beautifully. Three years ago a bottle from the same case was closed and a little disappointing, but this was terrific. Slight Hunter Valley leathery flavours running under the shiraz pepper with great length. Still deep colour and full flavour but hard to see it getting better. A Graveyard at its peak.
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1998 Penfolds Bin 389
5/11/2013 - Hagaprod Likes this wine: 92 Points
Opened with a 1998 Kalimna 28 - the 389 so much younger, still deep colour, all red at the rim, aged characters only just developing, opened but not decanted for 30mins before drinking, still needed another 30 mins to start releasing fruit flavours - this bottle shiraz flavours clearly dominant. Very nice drinking and absolutely no rush to open other bottles. A long life ahead for those well corked.
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