1999 Dalwhinnie Cabernet Sauvignon Moonambel Pyrenees

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 86.3 points

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  8/17/2019 - graemeg wrote: flawed

  {screwcap, 13%} Bricking garnet. Dusty old smell. Aged currant, classic cabernet cigar box, but also a hint of volatility too. Medium weight, aged palate, soft dusty tannins, fairly simple flavours. Mostly suffers from lack of freshness or interesting developed flavours. On the downslope.

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  6/22/2019 - graemeg wrote:

  {cork, 13%} This is tricky. Looked perfect - both wine and cork - no ullage, and an enticing bricking edge to a glowing colour. The nose was aged, leathery, herbally cabernet, with unobtrusive oak. Promising. But hte palate is dry and astringent, almost desiccated, as opposed to raising or stewed. So it has authentic cabernet herbs, and some olive, and a hint of current fruit, but also has a too-dusty, astringent quality. Not too tannic or oaky, just a bit stretched and thin somehow. And no length of finish. I wanted to like this, but it was just too hollow somehow. My last bottle I’ll keep as long as possible, just to see what happens, because it’s not obviously over the hill in any way, just seems to be travelling along an aging path that makes no sense.

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  1/18/2013 - Marc wrote: 89 Points

  Currants, cedar, mustard seed, marmite, dark and brooding smokey oak. Lean in mouth with currants some mint leaf and extremely savoury flavours. Excellent example of an Aussie cool climate Cabernet. Certainly in maturity but the clean acid nature of the wine holds the balance in check. Old school style that is slightly reminiscent of older Hawkes Bay wines but I enjoyed it for its earthy minty complexity.

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  1/4/2012 - graemeg wrote:

  {cork, 13%} Distinct bricking around the rim - a little more than I was expecting. The nose is quite minty - in a typical Pyrenees way - showing signs of development, although has a bit of a fungally, mushroom-like note. I wondered about some slight oxidised/cooked notes - the cork was immaculate, so that just blurred the issue further. The palate is dominated by a drying astringency; there's some minty fruit here, but massive dusty tannins - not overtly oaky either - really dominate the show. Medium-bodied, but the finish disappears in a puff; I'm not sure if this really was a drink-early wine (possibly), or if it's had some unsympathetic storage in the last ten years (likely, but doesn't preclude option one). On this tasting, something to be drunk right away. Overall, disappointing, for sure.

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  7/16/2007 - StewartWent wrote: 84 Points

  Good colour for the age; dark blood red with no lightening at the rim. Aged characters very evident on the nose; daggy old berries and varnishy wood. Aromas are surprisingly lifted yet they 'look' at least 8 years old. Palate flavours are quite subdued as the fruit has largely fallen away. Faint, mushy berries remain with a doft herbal / minty edge. Balanced tannin structure remains. Would have looked better 2 - 3 years ago.

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