2017 Spier Creative Block 3

Community Tasting Notes (1) Avg Score: 90.5 points

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  9/21/2021 - rikipedia Likes this wine: 90 Points

  A Shiraz-led wine with a sprinkle of Viognier and Mourvedre. Deep to opaque purple-black.
  The aroma kick-off with plenty of oak spices, sawdust, coconut and vanilla pod, but as the wine opens further, there is warm, ripe black fruit of damson and nastergal jam.
  A soft entry delivers bags of bilberries, blackberry and damson jam, sloe gin, and spicy to toasty oak. Sweet, silky cocoa powder tannins with a generous warming alcohol, this is a big, bold Shiraz style but enough acidity to keep it upright.
  The mid-palate oozes sweet fruit, making the wine very approachable even though it perhaps lacks much complexity. A gentle lift perhaps from the Viognier, but I don’t pick up much Mourvedre notes.
  A showy wine that finishes long, rich and supple but not overly complex. The back palate has a slight liquorice, olive tapenade and bramble fruits.

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