2012 Clarendon Hills Grenache Romas

Community Tasting Notes (1) Avg Score: 85 points

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  1/6/2021 - Milliontown wrote: 85 Points

  I call this kind of wine an "oak biscuit". I think the more technical term is "oak-fucked".
  I always have this association of sweet biscuits though, because it's sweet-fruited and sappy, dripping in glycerine and heavy extract on the palate, and the aromas remind me more of expensive furniture than fruit. Bit disappointing as I have good memories of older vintages of this in years gone past.
  The fruit is clearly of high quality, with strong blackcurrant notes and an intense polish leaning into a VA spectrum. But there's nothing varietally Grenache here to me, it's actually quite opaque in the glass, weirdly. The oak spice just slams it's presence in your face over and over again; it's packed with sweet vanilla, nutmeg and shoe polish, reminds me a bit of being a sauna.
  I left it a second day but it didn't improve. I have known some vintages of this wine to improve with age, but I can only see the fruit fading and the oak becoming more prominent from here.

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