2009 Mount Pleasant Wines Shiraz Maurice O'Shea

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 93.6 points

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  7/30/2022 - bowesmana Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Beautifully balanced wine, medium ruby, with perhaps some hint of garnet appearing. Decanted 90 minutes before tasting, the wine darkening slightly during that time. The oak very subtle. A very long finish
  
  Intensity: Medium
  The wine is still developing.
  
  Nose: Primary: Red and black cherries initially, developing to red plum, blueberry, liquorice, pepper.
  
  Secondary: Cloves and some cedar
  
  Tertiary: Cooked raspberry, tar and cooked red plum.
  
  The palate was
  
  Sweetness: Dry, Acidity: Medium+, Tannin: Medium+, Alcohol: High, Body: Medium+, Flavour Intensity: Medium+, Finish: Long
  
  Primary: Blueberry, blackberry, stewed raspberry and red plum.
  Secondary: Charred wood and toast
  Tertiary: Savoury, earthy, mushroom and tobacco.
  
  Balance: 1
  Length: 1
  Intensity: .5
  Complexity: 1
  
  An outstanding wine. Drink now, with potential for ageing.

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  11/27/2021 - OSWINE wrote:

  Drink 2030

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  10/5/2020 - cogo44 Likes this wine: 96 Points

  The nose reeks of tar and liquorice with a particularly dark fruited palate of plums, blackberry and dark chocolate. The long palate harmonises the fine tannins and the supporting fruit. The savoury fruit is top notch. This is the best O'Shea of a bigger expression that I have enjoyed. The 2000 vintage is a much more elegant expression but this is a standout Hunter shiraz that will live for some years. It went beautifully with Italian food.

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  3/28/2020 - Jimmy_D Likes this wine: 93 Points

  7-10 years too soon. This feels like it’s stuck in third gear at the moment. Everything is in balance but in a bit of a muted phase, in what is a fairy well-restrained vintage for O’Shea. One of the first classically styled vintages coming after the silly ‘blockbuster’ mid-2000s era. Enjoyable now but would like to come back to the rest once tertiary has kicked in.

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  3/6/2020 - Gritty Likes this wine: 95 Points

  World class booze, without fault. Still has plenty of fruit, tannins are soft and silky, lovely mouthfeel. Earthy Hunter Valley goodness. Yum!!

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