2008 Seppelt Shiraz St Peters

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 92.1 points

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  4/13/2024 - Neddy9 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Shared this with friends 11 April '24. The donor didn't decant the wine although there was next to no sediment. It didn't therefore have any chance to breathe and open up. *see following. Incredibly dark, dense almost black/red colour right to the rim. The aroma is tight, showing touches only of spice, blackberry, some lovely oak integration - all yet to properly evolve but the potential is great. From a warm, ripe vintage, this really is quite a blockbuster in the cooler Great Western style (compared to South Australia's McLarenVale and Barossa regions). It has terrific poise, power and intensity, lovely balance of elements and good persistent flavour. Given my personal experience with GW reds and their ageability, this is a baby and will comfortably develop over another 20 years, being under screwcap. I note one other commentator recorded the alc/vol at 13.5% - my bottle states 14%
  
  * There was maybe 40mm left in the decanter, which I tasted again today, 2 days later. Not much had changed and there was no evidence of any effect from air, indicating that this wine is built to last a long time !

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  4/17/2022 - ProfByron Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Medium weight, savoury, touch of florality. The gentle oak is still noticeable and the tannin is a bit thick, it’s still youthful.
  
  Lovely but a brighter future ahead.
  
  13.5%, screwcap

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  3/20/2022 - richard.presser Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Classic sweet Great Western Shiraz fruit nose that develops with bottle age. Building complexity with time in the glass.
  The palate showed similar sweet fruit characters on opening, though the acid was predominant, making the flavours a bit one dimensional. An hour or so has seen the flavour fill out. An absolute classic Seppelt GW Shiraz as they made them in the 40s and 50s. I despaired of ever seeing them again. But somebody, somewhere understood.
  Beginning to drink beautifully and will be around singing its song for another 20+ years.

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  6/21/2020 - Hawk23 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  The wine looks ruby coloured. The legs are medium. There is light sediment in the bottle. The body is medium/full, still has strong tannins and is very front of mouth. I will leave the other two bottles for a couple more years. Ones surprising (surprised me!) feature was that the wine finished noticeably short.

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  1/12/2020 - Andrew67 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Good, balanced shiraz. Not overblown like so many Australian shiraz. Doesn't quite feel like it has hit its peak yet though. I'm looking for the fruit to mellow a bit more, and I hope it does in the next couple years. Without that the wine lacks an overall statement. Young still though. Not reason to believe this has another decade at least in front of it.

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