A very pretty surprise and at a very good stage in its life. Some decanting helps too. Spicy and rich as expected from a Shiraz bit also with a harmony and elegance to it and nice age and evolution. A very impressive well evolved wine and an easy 94-95 maybe more but better drink sooner than later.
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From an impeccable bottle won at auction. Dark ruby colour, with nose of brown sugar, creosate, latex, barnyard, black olives, bleach. Thin, faded, angular palate of sour cherries, mulberry, boysenberry, sugary rum, kerosene, leather, vinegary sweat, and dried soil. It seems the 1995 drought took this vintage away from us: the wine shows none of the velvet richness and power of the immediately following vintages of the Armagh. The wine is dying, with many graveyard characteristics.
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2/17/2023 - Papies wrote: 95 Points
A very pretty surprise and at a very good stage in its life. Some decanting helps too.
Spicy and rich as expected from a Shiraz bit also with a harmony and elegance to it and nice age and evolution. A very impressive well evolved wine and an easy 94-95 maybe more but better drink sooner than later.
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12/28/2019 - kiwivino wrote:
Holding it’s own, but past its best.
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6/1/2019 - andrewstevenson.com wrote: 92 Points
Very good nose.
Much tougher and rawer on the palate than the magnum of 1994. Very firm tannins.
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12/8/2015 - Fausto_Coppi wrote: 85 Points
Fairly low key in terms of fruit. Has seen better days and rest of stock needs drinking
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7/3/2015 - slaughterer wrote: 92 Points
From an impeccable bottle won at auction. Dark ruby colour, with nose of brown sugar, creosate, latex, barnyard, black olives, bleach. Thin, faded, angular palate of sour cherries, mulberry, boysenberry, sugary rum, kerosene, leather, vinegary sweat, and dried soil. It seems the 1995 drought took this vintage away from us: the wine shows none of the velvet richness and power of the immediately following vintages of the Armagh. The wine is dying, with many graveyard characteristics.
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