2001 Mount Horrocks Riesling Cordon Cut

Community Tasting Notes (11) Avg Score: 89.3 points

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  4/4/2018 - Mossrose wrote: 91 Points

  At 17 years old, brown colored, but the color is mostly irrelevant for dessert wines, because there is no corresponding decay in the fruit, residual sugar, or acidity. Here, there remains a balance of sweetness, acidity, and flavors of nut and apricot that keep the experience of drinking the wine enjoyable, no matter how ugly the color looks.

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  11/16/2017 - AlphaMikeFoxtrot wrote: 87 Points

  Holding up nicely. Somewhat oxidized with lots of preserved fruit, including the kind of plums you find in Chinese cuisine. Acid is still there.

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  2/16/2017 - JerM wrote: 95 Points

  (finalwine@beaconhill) [4 months open, left in fridge] 10.5% Woah, rich dark tawny, with the finest lees. Fino sherry, reductive, with dried figs, prunes, dates, chinese pickled plum and soy sauce savouryness. Palate is still vibrant with crisp youthful green-apple acidity, lacy with short sweetness. Taut, yet creamy egg-y, a la creme brulee or a flan catalan. Rich, sweet, dry, surprising tannins (How??), sappy leaf, autumn leaves. Tertiary complexity, tawny, oxidative, marmalade bitters, maple syrup, preserved mandarin peel and beguiling complexity on a long lingering finish, with sweet tea characters. An incredible wine, drinking beautifully still, not the slightest hint of flagging!

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  10/17/2016 - JerM wrote: 95 Points

  (w elaine, post nyc) Woah, rich dark toffee amber in glass, hints kero pong upon pouring. Opened beautifully, luscious and oily, revealing marmalade toast, preserved kumquat, candied mandarin peel with fusty beeswax. Palate doesn't disappoint, with crisp acidity, yet more citrus and marmalade - sweet lemon and yuzu - gentle sweetness, pomelo pith bitters, and toffee caramel texture, finishing with sherry savouriness, young figs and limestone purity. Elegant, balanced, complex, and certainly aged, but oh so beautifully composed. Possibly my most enjoyable aussie dessert riesling so far! Incredibly paired with Jenis' Roasted Strawberry Buttermilk Icecream, and the beautifully milky Sweetcorn & Black Raspberry Icecream.

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  12/17/2012 - Benj wrote: 88 Points

  The Cordon Cut is best drunk pretty young. The 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011 all showed beautifully with a year or two on them. The 2003 was good evidence that this can age, but bottles with >5 years on them have been mixed (e.g. 2005). This bottle here (2001) is a deep dark orange and is pretty raisined. Still a joy to drink, but clearly over the hill - there is not enough acid left to hold this up, and it feels flat as a result. Nothing like the other Cordon Cuts I've had. Still unclear how transition to screwcap in mid-2000s will affect aging.

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