2014 Dandelion Vineyards Shiraz Lionheart of the Barossa

Community Tasting Notes (16) Avg Score: 89.3 points

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  12/28/2019 - ccarter5181 wrote: 90 Points

  Full rich fruit flavours. Nicely complemented with some secondary elements. Smooth finish. Drinking well now and great value.

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  4/20/2019 - Motz wrote: 92 Points

  The wine features Australia's signature hallmark for Shriaz, eucalyptus, along with lifted notes of mint and wintergreen. Surprisingly, the wine also features impressive precision, range, and balance, atypical for Australian Shiraz, particularly at the price point. Put differently it is decidedly not an extracted, sweet fruit bomb with in-your-face alcohol. Moreover, the most impressive element to this wine is savory, with an admixture of sous-bois and feral undertones! Wow! The whole package! Off-the-chain QPR!

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  4/4/2019 - tracychew wrote: 90 Points

  Very good, low tannin, red fruit, dark cherry, hint smoke/oak.

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  8/22/2018 - Heynetty wrote:

  4thWednesdays - Blind Tasting from CMS Advanced List (Texas Wine School, Houston, Tx): Tasted Blind
  
  A: Dark Ruby with purple highlights
  N: Blackberries, red cherry, COFFEE, chocolate and candied cassis. Youthful and pronounced.
  P: Dry, medium (+) acidity, medium (+) tannin, body, intensity and a medium finish. Alcohol high (14.5%)
  C: Can drink now but will benefit from aging. Good quality wine. A little simple and the alcohol is hot.
  
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  The alcohol and fruit ripeness put me in a warm to hot climate, the fruit forward style put me in the New World BUT I guessed this was a Carmenere. The coffee brought me there but there was a lack of pyrazine which should have pushed me away. I also missed the pepper of Syrah. Not convinced this was a great example of a Barossa Shiraz but enjoyable nonetheless.
  
  Others mentioned eucalyptus which i didn't get at all.

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  8/22/2018 - TannicBeast Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Tasted blind. Medium (+) to deep ruby, with a purple hue and some rim variation. It is slightly hazy and extracted and the legs are viscous. The nose is medium (+) in intensity, with blackberry, red cherry, blueberry, candied violets, and some oak spice. The palate is dry but fruit-forward, with ripe sweet fruit, consistent with the nose. Medium acidity, medium (+) tannins and high alcohol (14.5%). There's an interesting tension between the lifted fruit and the rounded, rich mouthfeel (as it turns out, it's made with whole-cluster fermentation). This could be a Zinfandel or a Syrah. The French Oak is a little confusing and points to the Northern Rhone; but overall the wine appears more New World in style. This wine is still quite youthful, with lots of aging potential. Really nice, and a great value at $20.00

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