Medium bodied wity smokey meats, dark fruit, vanilla oak flavours, with dull acidity and soft tannins providing some freshness all bundled into a long, long finish. Top class wine in a great spot. Appears the cork is giving some variability problems, but this one tastes like it can go another 5 years.
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Oak dominated and I suspect it will forever. It's sappy and heavy handed but there is some big Shiraz fruit in there too. Smooth tannin line redeems the dominating vanilla oak, acid good but some cork artifacts are showing. The large cork itself was over half way stained via imperfections. It's WA shiraz in a traditional SA mould, for me. Lots of tartrate residue in the bottle.
1st bottle was corked. 2nd bottle had lots of dark fruit in quite a soft setting, little tannin or well integrated?Hopefully it develops well over the next decade.
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Confirmed as an export. Bigger than your typical Great Southern Shiraz, it still speaks quality at this young age. There's plenty of dark fruit, but the tannins and oak are at little forward at this stage. Like the last note I think that will resolve with more time. Recently available at $25/bottle via CellarOne - bargain for something that has some serious potential.
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Rumoured to be an export label of the 2011 Thomas Yule. Bigger dark fruit than I expected of a Great Southern Shiraz, but it's still all well balanced with vanillin oak and nice savoury spice. Tannins are firm but not intrusive. Not a $75 wine, but available for $35 or so from DM etc. Nice now but I think it'll be better in 3-5 years.
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6/29/2023 - Moloko Likes this wine: 94 Points
Medium bodied wity smokey meats, dark fruit, vanilla oak flavours, with dull acidity and soft tannins providing some freshness all bundled into a long, long finish. Top class wine in a great spot. Appears the cork is giving some variability problems, but this one tastes like it can go another 5 years.
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1/11/2020 - GD77 Likes this wine: 90 Points
Oak dominated and I suspect it will forever. It's sappy and heavy handed but there is some big Shiraz fruit in there too. Smooth tannin line redeems the dominating vanilla oak, acid good but some cork artifacts are showing. The large cork itself was over half way stained via imperfections. It's WA shiraz in a traditional SA mould, for me. Lots of tartrate residue in the bottle.
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12/27/2019 - Moloko Likes this wine: 90 Points
1st bottle was corked. 2nd bottle had lots of dark fruit in quite a soft setting, little tannin or well integrated?Hopefully it develops well over the next decade.
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3/23/2017 - AnonymousCoward Likes this wine: 90 Points
Confirmed as an export. Bigger than your typical Great Southern Shiraz, it still speaks quality at this young age. There's plenty of dark fruit, but the tannins and oak are at little forward at this stage. Like the last note I think that will resolve with more time. Recently available at $25/bottle via CellarOne - bargain for something that has some serious potential.
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12/10/2016 - AnonymousCoward Likes this wine: 90 Points
Rumoured to be an export label of the 2011 Thomas Yule. Bigger dark fruit than I expected of a Great Southern Shiraz, but it's still all well balanced with vanillin oak and nice savoury spice. Tannins are firm but not intrusive. Not a $75 wine, but available for $35 or so from DM etc. Nice now but I think it'll be better in 3-5 years.
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