2014 Tahbilk Marsanne 1927 Vines

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 92.3 points

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  4/29/2024 - Gemofwine Likes this wine: 96 Points

  So delicious!!!
  Sit back & enjoy the lovely flowers, beautiful never ending acid, silky & finest lemon drops palate, clean, fresh (even at 10 years old) and elegant depth for a wine measuring 11% alcohol strength.

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  4/21/2024 - vintage_whine wrote:

  waxy texture, reduced petrol nose, but its the lack of acidity despite extremely low alcohol that makes this still varietally correct. interesting, like a grassy citrus hunter semillon but without the acid

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  8/28/2023 - Benj wrote: 92 Points

  Tahbilk’s Marsannes remain one of the best kept secrets in wine. This bottling, a step up from the already superb and ageworthy standard Marsanne, is absolutely roaring. A baby at 9 years, there is already a delightful petrol and slightly reductive character to support the lime leaf, wet honeysuckle, and pithy finish. The searing acid makes this a food wine, no question, but what a food wine it is. Light on its feet but bold enough to cut through a creamy chicken dish tonight, just starting to show a little bit of very pleasant hazelnut-almond character. Completely fresh, this has decades ahead of it. Oh, and it’s only 11% alcohol and $25. A wine lover’s dream.

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  5/20/2023 - Not647f wrote:

  Cracked the seal on one of these. This is such a bargain in wine. Marsanne isn't particularly a great, famous grape, but Tahbilk has the oldest vines and does the best with them, and it's $20 for the "reserve" version. These have weight without the gluey, clumsy effect ripe Marsanne can get. Lemon, white flowers, creamy texture. Great with fish, really any seafood, probably really fine with chicken. Worked well with stir fry, too.

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  3/10/2023 - Vinedict wrote: 90 Points

  Medium lemon at the core fading to a to watery rim.
  
  Medium aromatic intensity, notes of ripe peach, lemon cream, green plums, parched grass, white flowers.
  
  On the palate, the wine is dry, medium+ fruit intensity, high searing acidity, very prickly in nature, medium alcohol, medium body, medium (+) finish. This acid monstrosity from Nagambie Lakes shows very ripe potential, but I’m afraid I popped this bottle open too early. Given another decade, the acid will fade and the ripe fruit will evolve to reveal more tertiary notes and a creamy viscous mouthfeel to match. Alas, I can merely postulate….

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