1998 Cape d'Estaing Shiraz Admiral's Reserve

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 92.4 points

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  1/19/2022 - Border Boss Likes this wine: 93 Points

  From magnum. Double decanted four hours before service. Lots of tannins, with raspberry fruit popping out. Dark opaque red color. After a while in the glass, the tannins mellowed out. The wine became very Bordeaux-like.
  
  Drinking extremely well with proper aeration. There's plenty of life left, at least in this format. Paired extremely well with roast saddle of venison with huckleberry sauce.

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  12/25/2020 - bigbass250 Likes this wine:

  Been waiting to have enough people to share this with and todays the day. We are at our 10 person Covid gathering limit so should be fun having with Christmas Dinner. It was truly spectacular opening bottle of many more to come.

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  5/18/2019 - walkerjfw wrote: 92 Points

  From a magnum bought at auction several years back. Dinner with Wendy, Simon Larry, Susan @ Eno Terra, great corkage friendly spot and knowledgable staff...Decanted for about 20 minutes, drank over an hour..
  
  Medium ruby color, slightly faded/opaque. Nose showing bitter cherry, leather and earth. Palate repeats with faded raspberry, cedar, savory notes. Elegant texture, tannins resolved, smooth and nuanced through the back palate. Medium weight and finish.
  
  Really drinking well right now, one might say technically past its prime but the mag aged well and the wine is drinking nicely. Aussie fruit is evident but settled and nuanced at this stage. Interesting wine, crowd liked it...

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  11/18/2008 - FakeAccount wrote: 93 Points

  Surprisingly good! Great aromatics and structure. Still youthful with no secondary notes. I plan to hang on to my other mags of this for at least 5 more years.

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  2/9/2008 - JLeader wrote: 93 Points

  My number 2 wine of the night; beautiful floral, crushed stone and white pepper nose; inky and mineral-laden, but great balance; showing nice layers of complexity and mature at this point but holding in a very nice place.

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