2010 Tahbilk Marsanne 1927 Vines

Community Tasting Notes (16) Avg Score: 91.5 points

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  9/5/2021 - GAT Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Hoping for a bit more. Maybe it was just me. We had it after a Dom Perignon 2004.

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  3/31/2021 - graemeg wrote:

  {screwcap, 11.5%} Still very pale; barely mid yellow. Slightly developed nose of pineapple, grapefruit, fleshy melon. Oakless, but with a greasy sort of aroma. The palate is seemingly deficiently low in acidity, certainly initially, where there’s just a grape skin quality with fleshy, thick white fruit characters. But eventually there’s a kind of scaffold of acidity which holds the structure together. That said, it’s still pretty thick in texture, furry and dense, medium/full in weight, with a medium/long finish of largely a single dimension in flavour, if impressive in length. Butter and nuts too. Almost tannic in texture. Will be interesting to see how it ages further. Tahbilk may have some of the largest plantings and oldest Marsanne vines in the world, but they’re scarcely spoken of in hushed tones of awe, which it feels though they should. Not sure this wine will be tipping point, but at only $40-ish perhaps that’s a big ask. But then, why should it be, if everything is done with an eye to the supreme achievements of quality?

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  2/6/2021 - Kayaking Likes this wine: 92 Points

  At a stage now somewhere between a young fresh zesty wine, and an aged mellow eine. Great intensity, certainly a step up from the standard Tahbilk Marsanne. Golden yellow, starting to show marmalade characteristics. If you like the aged characteristics of Marsanne I suggest waiting at least a couple of years to be rewarded.

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  1/15/2021 - crazywineguy Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Light medium yellow now, built colour from its release of near colourless. Really interesting nose of oily gardenia/honeysuckle with touch of citrus/verbena. Again it has put on fat and become concentrated from my 2018 tasting. Dry, just starting to show aged characteristics, still quite high acid, long finish. Great wine with most entrees especially anything oily or zesty it will work well. So much intense flavour for such low alcohol (11.5%). This will build in bottle, another 5 years to apogee, last a long time methinks if it tastes like this after 10 years. yum!

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  12/23/2020 - Jason Wu Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Appearance: pale lemon.
  Nose: medium intensity; aromas of lemon, lime, green apple, grapefruit, toast, nutty. It’s developing.
  Palate: dry, high acidity, medium minus alcohol 11.5%, medium body, medium plus flavour intensity, flavours align with nose, some subtle honey notes. The finish is medium plus.
  Overall, it’s a very good wine. Can drink now, has potential for further ageing.
  I would easily mistaken it with a quality Hunter semillon. Delicious and refreshing. Some lovely toasty and nutty characters developed from bottle ageing.

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