2003 Kilikanoon Shiraz M McLaren Vale

Community Tasting Notes (21) Avg Score: 92.3 points

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  3/12/2021 - domanderson Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Pleasingly, still drinking well. Deep garnet/brick red in colour, as expected at this age. Nose: Leather, plums, cedar, cherries, licorice. Taste: fruit forward. Star anise, plums, vanilla, low/medium acidity, very soft tannins and a smooth complexion. Fruitier than the equivalent vintage R Reserve consumed recently. Slightly chalky finish, but very long.

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  6/29/2019 - Mossrose wrote: 92 Points

  Deep vivid purple with an age revealing light brown tone. Enticing aromas of blueberry and smoked meat. The swallow is refreshingly acidic, smoothly textured, and lightly drying, with a good fruit taste of pomegranate and cherry. While enjoyably good, not as great as I was hoping the Reserve M bottling would be.

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  6/15/2018 - Psdycp Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Complex and savoury bouquet of grilled meat, old leather, ripe blueberries and cassis, earthy licorice and Indian spices. Palate is rich and plummy. Good balance, not too sweet and fat, sufficient acidity and ripe tannins in the structure. Finish is deep and leathery but a touch chalky. Need at least an hour for the mid-palate to develop.

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  6/14/2018 - Mossrose wrote: 93 Points

  Opaque purple to the edge with a half inch pour. The upfront taste dominating the sip is tangy, lively, and refreshing acidity accented by vivid blueberry and secondary blackberry fruit, buoyed by an undertow of tannin, with nothing heavy, sugary, or oxidized. Could almost pass for a Northern Rhone Syrah.

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  3/22/2016 - Mossrose wrote: 93 Points

  The winemaker's notes and Parker's 95 point review for this wine are simply in an alternative universe from where the wine in the bottle is. Not because the wine is overrated, but the way the wine is praised as being great. Parker and the winemaker praise the wine as if it was in a bumper car contest to be the blackest, biggest, heaviest, and jammiest tar and asphalt Shiraz in the world. But the wine in the bottle has red edges and is a shade short of being opaque in the middle, and the sip is bright, clean, and pure, with zero jam, sweetness, heaviness, or alcoholic heat. And, finally, the wine has subtle complex layers of smoked meat, blueberry, and velvet silk.

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