2012 Clarendon Hills Syrah Domaine Clarendon

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  4/19/2021 - Gemofwine Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Drinking well now, but will be better in a few years time as it needs to age more. This wine should be able to age for many infinite moons.....
  This is a beautiful Shiraz, (label reads Syrah). It is definitely very Australian styled, fruits forward, with much sweet spice, white pepper. It is rich & big, yet elegant.
  I like the clean silhouette in this wine and the clarity of the aroma and palate.

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  9/6/2020 - RobertLA Likes this wine: 92 Points

  So much better on second night. Open and alive. Beautiful fruit. Acid restrained. Tannins in the background. Much much better

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  9/5/2020 - RobertLA Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Unidimentional wine. Acid dominates the fruit. Not particularly enjoyable. Give it a couple of years to see what it’s like

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  8/24/2019 - nick.whit Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Bold plum, cassis and licorice, and a subtle hit of vanilla and pepper spice. Blackberry, plum and some blueberry dominates the palate. Length is ample. The tannin is grainy and borders on chewy, and it'd be safe to say this wine has structure to allow further aging. If anything, it may benefit from a little longer in the cellar to mute the acidity a mite. A little milk chocolate late on, and the oak is well integrated. No hurry to drink. Highly recommend decanting.

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  3/21/2016 - dhammer wrote:

  Much too young at this stage. Don't open until 2022 at least. Massive amounts of acidity need to mellow.

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