2009 Lindeman's Pyrus

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 92.4 points

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  2/9/2024 - Rote Kappelle Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Under the screw cap of joy, from beautifully sited vineyards within Coonawarra (possibly one of the flattest, most boring wine regions on earth, but nice juice) and a very hot, bushfire year. Lindemans always lavish a lot of care on their 3 top Coonawarra reds.
  
  All the above yield some expected and some unexpected results.
  
  The wine pours and drinks with remarkable freshness for a 15 year old wine from a bushfire year. The colour shows no obvious brick, the depth of colour is impressive and promises power that the wine delivers. A lot of this is down to the Stelvin seal, some to Coonawarra's ability to deliver relatively elegant Cabernet based wines with fresh acid.
  
  The quality sites and care in winemaking show in the clarity of fruit - here we have a very potent core of essence of blackcurrant. This is much more prominent than I expected and is probably at least partly a function of the vintage. The vintage and the 14.5% ABV would make one expect a jammy element but that is not what I get.
  
  The acid intrigues me. In Oz one is allowed to add acid and that is a possibility here, but I suspect it is from the fact that the last few weeks prior to vintage and vintage itself were marked by cool, dry weather after the blisteringly hot summer. That probably resulted in that core of essence of cassis and saved the grapes from losing acid structure.
  
  The other elements are some mint, dark chocolate and a slight pencil shaving/smoky note. These wines always feature a strong oak presence, almost always well-handled and so it is here.
  
  Easy to drink, yet somehow it does not quite click for me. The cassis is just a bit much, but on another day, I might notice the other elements more and so might another drinker. Clearly a high-quality wine that sits in the 'excellent' range and whether it is 90 or 93 or somewhere in between doesn't matter that much.

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  6/9/2019 - Andrew67 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  I enjoyed the balance. Intense but with some structure. Probably needs a couple more years.

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  4/21/2017 - Andrew67 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Really nice - rich, rounded, full of flavour - without being jammy or too intense. The Malbec comes through in the blend, balancing the Cabernet better than the Merlot does. I'd guess a decade at least for this one.

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  8/9/2016 - nulla wrote: 93 Points

  93. Dark berries, integrated wood. A bit tight when first opened then, after 30 or so minutes, the wine loosened up and the fruit poked through. Well balanced, smooth, nice length, no heat and no acid poking out. Lovely drinking. Five left in the cellar for further down the road.

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  8/18/2011 - Patrick - winereviewer.com.au wrote: 94 Points

  A restrained and elegant nose of dark fruits, mint, earth and tight cedary oak.
  
  The wine has peppery blackcurrant and spicy / savoury tannins that provide a great mouth feel. The length on the finish is excellent and has the structure to reward medium term cellaring.
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