2013 Torbreck The Factor

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 93.1 points

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  5/18/2024 - Brent25 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Clear deep ruby/garnet with big staining legs; clean medium plus nose of plum jam, blueberry compote, cassis, balsamic and leather; dry; high acidity; medium tannins; high alcohol; full body; pronounced flavour intensity; palate has fruit payoff with addition of cocoa, figs and dates; long finish; drink now or in 5 years; comfortably in its drinking window; sadly, this was my last bottle - if I had another bottle I’d wait another 2 years for further development; concentrated and inky with a seductive, velvety mouthfeel; a little hot but easy enough to overlook given the delicious tertiary; best with dry aged beef to complement the wine’s complexity

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  5/5/2023 - Scottlmatthews Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Dark fruit on nose, with iodine and black pepper spice. Beautiful palate of intense black cherry, blackberry, wet soil, blueberries with black pepper minerals of iron. Balanced with fruit acid, fructose, and tannins.

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  8/22/2022 - CheviotCellar Likes this wine: 94 Points

  What a beautiful wine. So concentrated and rich it literally stained the light green glass bottle. But its not over extracted or brooding, just luscious, dense, high quality grapes. Dark chocolate, dark soil, coffee, fig, sweet apricot, lavender with some drying notes and acidity to keep it honest.
  
  Oh my, the concentration here is so smooth and pleasurable. Nothing to fault.

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  7/16/2022 - Brent25 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Clear deep ruby with garnet rim and big staining legs; clean pronounced nose of balsamic, cocoa, stewed blackberries, cassis, vanilla and toast; dry; high acidity; medium tannins; medium plus alcohol; medium plus body; pronounced flavour intensity; palate is tarter, velvety and follows nose; long finish; drink now or in a few years (by 2025?) - beautiful mix of fruit and tertiary; blinded as Unico or Solaia - wonderful wine for the price

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  2/1/2022 - kostaslonis wrote:

  Tasting Ground official tasting, Torbreck The Factor vertical (Oinoscent): Varietal: 100% Shiraz
  Regions: Gomersal, Kalimna, Rowland Flat, Marananga, & Ebenezer
  Harvest: March 2013
  pH: 3.658, acidity: 6.32g/L, alcohol: 15.43%
  Fermentation: Small parcels of fruit from old dry grown vines are selected for their individual qualities and matured separately in a combination of seasoned, second fill and new (40%) French oak. The wine was assembled in June 2015 and bottled without filtration or fining in August the same year.
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  The wine shows high intensity in the nose, black currants, black cherries, smoke, toast, warm but not hot, halfway youthful and developing. Palate more on the youthful side, alcohol heat (15.50%), fruit in alcohol, tannins big, liquer, strong oak presence, licorice, black fruit, long finish. Such a beast!
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  24h: more spicy, earthy and gamey, powerful, got much needed air, palate shows depth but also warmer, blackcurrant

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