2013 d'Arenberg The Galvo Garage

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 88.9 points

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  8/9/2023 - stayhappy21 wrote: 88 Points

  Opened a bottle over dinner at home with a FYP teammate from my NTU days and her spouse. We ordered food from New Ubin Seafood.
  
  Dark purple in colour. Notes of blueberries, raspberries, unripe plums, some dried herbs and ripe cherries. After decanting for 2 hours, notes of coffee, dark chocolate, and wild mushrooms emerged.
  
  This is a textbook Bordeaux blend from Adelaide Hills and McLaren Vale. Made in the classic style, not ground-breaking, but not terrible either. A wallet-friendly wine.

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  10/21/2022 - Vindraken Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Fab and extremely good value

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  4/6/2021 - tplskylrk wrote:

  Hot damn diggity dog, this screamed Auzzie once i screwed off the cap. This puffed cotton candy thing thats just so damn enjoyable. Plus this has a serious blend and some structure from the pv.
  
  Color is dense and fined. All those creamy barrel treatment notes, blueberry pie. Menthol. Bit of a candy nose.
  Palate is more serious, huge heavy ripe fruit, wow. Just explodes, expands on the palate and mouth. Tangy at the end. Short finish.
  
  This is some great qpr and i think the bottle age has helped this integrate, tannins perfect on this P&P.
  
  Day II - Last sips. Nice sediment at the bottom of the glass. This wine was allowed to be wine. This last sip is just stuck in the gums. The PV took over in the last bits as this came apart a bit. But such a nice powerful wine w the heavy red sauce and pasta. Such qpr over 2 nights.

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  12/29/2020 - quaffnov Likes this wine: 89 Points

  No formal note, a nice blend of bordeaux varietals, good QPR.

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  10/13/2018 - Psdycp wrote: 88 Points

  The nose is very spicy, cassis, fresh thyme, eucalyptus, tar with toasty oak. Powerful and raw palate echoing the nose. A full throttle wine which is not shy in showing all its got. Although the structure is rounded, the finish is deep and tannic. Still very young, need another 5 more years for it to settle down. Decant for 3 hours or longer if you are drinking now.

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