2003 Little River Shiraz

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 86 points

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  7/1/2010 - Alex H wrote: 85 Points

  Chinese medicinal herbs, Leather, rhone garrigue but obvious power of australia sunshine following closely behind. Black currants, black shiny fruits, spiced bbq meats. Controlled heat. A country brute, backward and somewhat austere. Drank this over 2 nights and the staying power is amazing

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  1/2/2010 - Alex H wrote: 85 Points

  What a nose! Tons of barnyard, dried menthol chinese herbs, cigars and garrigue spices. The nose evolves all the time gaining more dark mushy berry weight then going back to smell of horse and cow and then slowly developing almost dark inkish violet florals. Musky , backwardish and very french styled. However, the palate gives away its sunshine terroir from australia with ripe juicy black fruits . Not as complex as its nose but lots of licourice, anise and cloves. The finish is unique with black minerals and somewhat intriguing if not disturbing. A wine not for everyone but I like it. Not a dime in a dozen and probably a needle in a haystack.

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  11/24/2009 - Paul S wrote: 88 Points

  ABB (Anything But Burg) Dinner (Kome, Keppel Club): Perfect wine if you want to teach someone how to idenitfy Brett. Flawed? Maybe not to that extent, but the Brett certainly distracted from the varietal and terroir characters of the wine. Stinky animale nose, just wave after wave of sweaty horse saddles and barnyardy funk wafted out of the big-bowled glass. A bit better when I poured it into the smaller, Bordeaux shaped one, when some earth and touches of capsicum came out. Palate had its fair share of horse and leather as well, but was thankfully a bit clearer, with clean cassis flavours, sinewy tannins and plush, ripe berries all freshened up with good acidity. Finish was hard to make out in the mdist of a horsey linger. Far from unpleasant, but not altogether enjoyable given the immense barnyardy-ness of the wine.

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  9/20/2009 - Alex H wrote: 86 Points

  Australia Wine Trip; 9/20/2009-9/21/2009 (Swan Valley): By far, my best find of the trip! The only truly real classical styled effort from all the vineyards I visited. This might not be the most stunning (complex) wine I tasted on the trip but I really did enjoy it a lot if not the most. This is full of black licourice, black cow leather, horse manure bordering on cigar box with lots of musky backward aromatics. Very rhone garrigue and barnyardish. Lots of spices on the palate of anise, cloves, nutmeg giving character to the dark black wild cherry fruits. Also got some black rock nuance at the finish. Good length.

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