1996 Tahbilk Cabernet-Shiraz

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 89.7 points

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  5/13/2012 - millesime66 wrote: 89 Points

  Encore jeune pour un Australien de 16 ans. Un peu chaud, il est assez délicat et raffiné, tout en fruit et sans ces notes d'eucalyptus habituelles.

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  3/6/2011 - GEllis wrote: 90 Points

  Very nice fruit - has aged gracefully. Deep colour retained and opened up nicely over dinner. Still plenty of life left in this.

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  7/9/2010 - graemeg wrote:

  Not dissimilar to last time (9 months); a moderately intense nose of mushrooms, musty old mansions, and leather armchairs. Clearly at its peak. The palate is ripe, certainly old, but with plenty of life; composty-tasting fruit and soft old drying oak tannins all combine to produce a medium-bodied wine, mostly weighted towards the front palate, with a medium lengrth, nicely aged, although ultimately somewhat simple finish.

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  10/31/2009 - graemeg wrote:

  {cork, 13%, A$20} Funny to think that the only example of this most traditional Australian blend offered by Tahbilk is this low-profile effort, released as a 12-year-old wine exclusively to their mailling list for a very reasonable price. Mid garnet, and certainly showing its age. A medium intensity, developing nose of red earth, leather, spice and coffee. The palate is dusty-dry, old-school in its austerity, with the spiciness of shiraz marrying beautifully with the dark bracken flavours of the cabernet. Built on a fine tannin structure, it's pretty understated - no blockbuster - and has a medium finish of decent balance. Better with food, and probably near peak now.

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