2019 Torbreck RunRig

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 92.5 points

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  3/6/2024 - Collector1855 wrote: 94 Points

  During a MOT walkabout tasting, no detailed notes. Ripe fruit with sweet spices, not overdone. I have had these wines aged and they show well. Can be approached now due to its ripe fruit but best after 2030. 93-95

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  4/28/2022 - kostaslonis wrote:

  Torbreck Runrig vertical tasting (home): Variety: 98.5% Shiraz, 1.5% Viognier
  Vineyards: 6 Vineyards, assemblage
  Subregions: Lyndoch, Rowland Flat, Moppa, Ebenezer, Light Pass, Greenock
  Harvest: 1st March – 22nd March 2019
  Maturation: 30 months on new (50%), second fill and third fill French oak barriques, completing a natural malolactic fermentation in barrel and resting on fine lees throughout maturation to enhance texture
  Analysis: Alc/Vol 15% pH 3.58 Acidity 5.79/L
  Cellar: 30+ years
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  Tasting from old to new vintages, the bottles were opened at 15.00, double decanted, tasting at 21.00
  Going back to the 2017 style, this shows ripe black fruit but with enough floral note to make it lighter and more elegant, plums next to black cherries, the oak is nowhere to be seen.
  In the palate, the wine shows pure fresh black fruit, vanilla notes, plums, black cherries, alcohol heat, brutally tight tannins (the most of all the wines), teeth-kicking acidity, feels a bit disjoint (which is normal), med to full body and long steely finish.
  This well require some considerable time to settle down

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