2009 Patritti Saperavi Barossa Valley

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 91 points

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  8/31/2013 - CamWheeler wrote: 89 Points

  Alternative Varieties Tasting: Basil and herbs, blackcurrant and cinnamon. Palate has that herbal edge to is as well, with grainy tannins. Plenty of interesting facets.

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  1/9/2012 - AlexGarner Likes this wine: 92 Points

  As I said last time, this will go for a long time. Interesting, and great value. I've grabbed a set for the cellar and I'll take a look in another decade to see what's happened.

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  6/27/2011 - AlexGarner Likes this wine: 92 Points

  I had this blind, so therefore I had absolutely no chance of picking the variety - which is just as well, as I have it on authority from my Father-in-law who brought this around tonight, that the cellar door hand that sold it to him was going to end it all if I guessed it.
  
  The nose is quite extraordinary - laced with oak vanillin which, while big, is not out of balance. Everything is smokey and meaty, with dried prunes and alcohol leaping out of the glass. Complex and makes you sit up and take notice.
  
  The palette is fruit dominant, with a rim of spice. The front palette and initial mouth feel is a little sparse with some big heat, but you don't really notice this until the big mid palette; so there some balance issues there, but the smoke, prunes, raspberry and chocolate all come back in spades through the magnificent finish.
  
  This will cellar for as long as you'll be on this earth, but at $20 a bottle, this can be drunk happily for the next 15 years.

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  2/18/2011 - graemeg wrote:

  2011 Sydney Royal Wine Show - Exhibitor's Tasting (Olympic Park, Homebush): Bronze medal {cork, 14%} A purple-verging-on-black colour. Young nose of prunes and brandy essence, with smoke/tobacco notes. Big, rich palate; roasted prunes, bitter coffee & tobacco flavours. Inky-fruit flavours shine through soft oak treatment. Lots of dusty tannins make an impact; it’s intense, medium-full bodied, although it only really seems to have much presence from the mid-palate back, which gives the finish a slightly hollow feel, and clips off the finish to no more than medium length. An interesting novelty nonetheless.

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