2006 Domaine A Cabernet Sauvignon Stoney Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 91.5 points

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  5/21/2015 - graemeg wrote:

  (Diam, 14.5%) very leafy,dry curranty too. Kind of hard on the medium-bodied palate with gently gritty tannins, raspy acid and leafy herbal flavours. It's not really a bad wine but it has no charm at all. And I wanted to enjoy it more. May evolve into something a bit more endearing with time.

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  10/1/2013 - JerM wrote:

  (Tasting@StoneyVineyard) Sultry smoke and tar, green. Interesting savory chinese herbs, plums, with dusting of cocoa powder, leading to a muted, and somewhat simple finish. Nothing like its Domaine A sibling at all.

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  3/2/2013 - Tcorbett wrote: 92 Points

  Lovely cab sauv, nice purple with some bricking around the edges, very pleasant red fruits, spice, white pepper, smokey and plumy cab sauv with nice fine tannins, and some length

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  1/19/2013 - graemeg wrote:

  {diam, 14.5%} Dark ruby. Assertive, dark nose of black olives, cassis, basil, smoke. Kind-of screams new world cabernet, but in no way a fruit-bomb. Serious new world cabernet. The palate is medium-bodied, tastes in line with the nose, and has a kind of gritty rusticity to the tannins. It's stupidly elemental for a wine seven years old; yet despite the mass of flavour - very much of the cool-climate kind - there's also a brittle hollowness at its core which reveals its declassified origins. Still, it's a pretty decent cabernet, more so from Tasmania; and it has an earthy, authentic feel to it that you don't find in more commercial offerings. Probably at best over the next 5 years or so. (The top label Domaine A cabernet has jumped from $75 to $120 with the 2006 vintage - makes this wine look better even at its newly increased $35 in comparison.)

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  11/3/2012 - Tcorbett wrote: 91 Points

  Very nice, exhibiting smoky, plummy, red current, spice and chocolate. Fine rounded tannins that last with the sweetness of plums coming through along with spice/cloves.

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