1999 Charles Cimicky Shiraz Reserve

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 88.5 points

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  8/7/2011 - hkm520240 wrote: 90 Points

  Open my last bottle after 1 year and hopefully this bottle will taste better.
  Dark core with ruby hues. Initial nose and palate was again full of barnyard. Proceed to decant the wines. After 2 hours it still retained the warm barnyard nose with some black currant and spice started to reveal. It has silky mouth feel, although slight austere, good length of finish with barnyard aftertaste and chewy tannins. It did improve with air but still somewhat disappointed. (88 pts)
  
  Kept half bottle for 2nd day. No more vegetal and barnyard this time and I got dark fruits, vanilla on the nose and rich fruits flavours on palate, cherry, berry and plum. It was much more seductive on 2nd day. What a pleasant surprise. (90pts)

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  7/27/2010 - hkm520240 wrote: 87 Points

  Very strong & warm banyard nose right from the start, vegetal & herbaceous with hidden fruits. Same barnyard taste on the palate, althought some fruits showing up after some times. Smooth and rounded mouthfeel, medium length with soft tannins. Not quite impressive. Still got one more bottle.

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