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Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 89.5 points

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  11/12/2016 - wineaficionado Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Color: Still deep and youthful. Only when the wine is swirled in the glass you can see a slightly brownish hue. Nose: Quite delicious. Cherries, red berries, a hint of oranges. Mouth: Quite expressive and fruity but not like a fruit punch as so many other new world wines. Somehow it is a cool and pure fruit. The cherry aroma is so good. 14.5% alc. and you can feel it just a little too much.

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  2/12/2016 - wineaficionado wrote: 81 Points

  Color: Still deep and impenetrable. The rim is a bit lighter. Nose: Not very fruity. Some red sour berries. Much more on the savory side: Barbecue, smoked lard and fried bacon come to mind. Leather and eucalyptus, too. Mouth: Well it has definitely lost expressiveness and has become tired. The finish is a bit bitter. It is going downhill. To drink now.

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  9/6/2014 - Happy Sommelier wrote: 87 Points

  Professional Wine Review Dan Murphy gives this wine 94. Well okay sure Australian wine reviews self promoting their own national brand can be tolerated to some degree.
  
  The wine is typical new world Australian from Barossa. Dark and inky blackberry weighted by licorice and leafy spice. A full bodied wine that has mellowed somewhat if that is even possible for the super bold style Barossa wine that come from a super hot climate. It may work for Shiraz but I have yet to enjoy a Cabernet Sauvignon from this region.
  
  Oak is prominent in the mouth which helps to round the wine. Enjoy if you are from Down Under otherwise for the price I suggest a solid Cru Bourgeois from the Medoc.
  
  It is nevertheless a well made wine and is true to the character of Barossa, hence the solid good score of 87.

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  2/26/2014 - wineaficionado Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Nose: A hint of whipped cream, wild berries, coconut. Mouth: Elegant and balanced. Nice sourness. Additionally a hint of eucalyptus and cherry. Not very typical for a Cabernet Sauvignon. Somewhat Burgundian stylewise. Meaning not to be bold and burly but rather on the light side.

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