1995 Yarra Yering Dry Red N°2

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  12/28/2016 - jreis Likes this wine:

  Wine strategies nailed the note - totally agree. A beautifully restrained, fully mature lovely wine. Drink up - not going to fall off a cliff, but not likely to improve.

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  11/13/2016 - Tim Heaton Likes this wine:

  Fully mature, delicate expression of #2. Opened with acetone, shoe polish, but with 90 minutes these aromas had departed and in their place the fruit appeared and the wine filled out as well. To borrow from a well worn expression, this was quite Burgundian in style, with a medium body, graceful layers of fruit and a gentle, yet refreshing acidity. Tannins resolved, but properly frame the rest of the package as to keep it quite focused. Not so deep or broad, but satisfying in that tertiary, mature way that says I was grown, not made. The friends that I opened this for got a little hung up on the acetone, which left more for me. Perfect at the 90 minutes open/aerated mark. 12,5% abv., thru 2022. recommended
  
  Served non-blind; cork and fill vg

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  5/21/2005 - jrufusj wrote:

  Tokyo Offline for Dale and Betsy and Joe (Shunju): Bryan and Amy are our next door neighbors. After dinner we joined them for one more bottle, which turned out to be an older version of the syrah/marsanne/viognier blend. Man, was I wrong about the aging potential for this wine. Take all of the components described above, tone the volume and ripeness down a touch, add a little more apparent structure, and you get a wine that seems to be much closer to Cote-Rotie and shows more complexity and none of the distraction/confusion. Additional elements that come out include a little anise, some smoky meat, and a tiny bit of bitter chocolate. It’s still Australian, it’s still ripe, and the structure still hides a little behind the fruit, but this is serious syrah. This is still available in the market, but with very limited allocation. I’m going hunting!

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