Sunday Dinner on the Beach (Yin Yang Coastal, Ting Kau Village, Tsuen Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong): Decanted for 5 hours before serving - the cork has been touched less than 3mm by the wine and it looks like it was bottled yesterday. Colour is similar ; very youthful blue -purple that only emerged from the initial totally inpenetrable black with 5 hours of decanting. Nose is very deep and ripe but extremely reticent black plum. Palate is black (coal, plum, asphalt, liquorice stick)....monoloithic and inpenetrable but so precisely-hewn...like a black granite sculpture. Incredible power on the finish - wave after wave of deep growling power. Still too young to be other than headachey at this stage. Brilliant potential - 92+ for now but could well develop to 95-96 with 10 more years. One of the very best products of the 'Hunt for the Next Grange' that Runny and I undertook in around 2007.
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First rate McLaren Vale Shiraz. Plenty of red and dark fruit, mocha and tar, lovely mouth coating texture, just enough acidity and nice spicey finish as well. Very pleasant with baked scotch fillet.
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2/4/2023 - peter.mancell@mfg.com.au Likes this wine: 94 Points
Still a superb McLaren Vale shiraz. Great fruit and lovely texture.
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5/10/2015 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 92 Points
Sunday Dinner on the Beach (Yin Yang Coastal, Ting Kau Village, Tsuen Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong): Decanted for 5 hours before serving - the cork has been touched less than 3mm by the wine and it looks like it was bottled yesterday. Colour is similar ; very youthful blue -purple that only emerged from the initial totally inpenetrable black with 5 hours of decanting. Nose is very deep and ripe but extremely reticent black plum. Palate is black (coal, plum, asphalt, liquorice stick)....monoloithic and inpenetrable but so precisely-hewn...like a black granite sculpture. Incredible power on the finish - wave after wave of deep growling power. Still too young to be other than headachey at this stage. Brilliant potential - 92+ for now but could well develop to 95-96 with 10 more years. One of the very best products of the 'Hunt for the Next Grange' that Runny and I undertook in around 2007.
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6/7/2013 - peter.mancell@mfg.com.au Likes this wine: 92 Points
First rate McLaren Vale Shiraz. Plenty of red and dark fruit, mocha and tar, lovely mouth coating texture, just enough acidity and nice spicey finish as well. Very pleasant with baked scotch fillet.
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4/23/2010 - nstryland wrote: 90 Points
very dark, rich, shiraz
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