ChangeMe 
Grape Fermenter
Posts: 672
 | | 07-15-2003 01:16 AM |
| From the Barossa Valley in Australia. Purchased for $40 in Sydney. Served at dinner with kybo last night.
Very closed upon first opening. Decanted for 3 hours before serving, and continued to open up for another 2 hours after that.
A brawny and serious shiraz. With air, the substantial frame filled out with black raspberry, plum, black pepper, and sage flavors. Satiny texture, with a persistent finish. Needs some more time to reach Parker's 93P rating, but 91-92P wine right now (once it catches its breath in the decanter).
Cheers,
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Pool Boy
Laurl, MD (DC suburb)
Master of Wine
Posts: 13786
| | 07-15-2003 01:26 AM |
| Wow. Sounds like a winner. I wish I had something left from the 98 Peter Lehmanns I had. But I was a dork and drank the few bottles I bought (and certainly not this particular bottle). Nice notes, thanka. | | | www.roguefood.com -- www.cellartracker.com | |
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TORB
Berrima NSW Australia
Grape Fermenter
Posts: 547
| | 07-15-2003 09:36 AM |
| Hi Dork  , The 1996's are only just starting to enter into thier drinking window. Just as well as you live on tyhe otherside of the pond or I would have to arrest you for vininfanticide.  | | Cheers Ric
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ChangeMe
Grape Fermenter
Posts: 672
| | 07-15-2003 11:53 AM |
| Never fear, TORB. I have two more in the cellar that will get their full beauty sleep.
Cheers,
Otis | | | |
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ChangeMe
Grape Destemmer
Posts: 51
| | 09-21-2003 12:10 AM |
| A package of 8 bottles of this wine with 8 different lables is currently on offer here in Ontario for CAD$399, or about CAD$50 a bottle (USD$35). Seems a bit steep, even if I wanted 8 bottles. It was about USD$ 30 a bottle in London this summer, but we passed in favour of a 96 Peter Lehmann Stonewell for the same price. | | | |
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Bob Bressler
Napa Valley
Wine Lover
Posts: 4932
| | 09-21-2003 12:17 AM |
| I'm with TORB, we have some of the '96 8 songs, and it is great right now. (The '94 Stonewell, if you see any is fantasic) | | | |
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ChangeMe
Grape Destemmer
Posts: 51
| | 09-21-2003 12:45 AM |
| A thousand apologies, I misrepresented the truth above. It was not the Stonewell we got instead (though a bottle of the 96 was gifted to us in London!) it was the 96 Elderton Command shiraz. Another wine that needs 10 years, by all accounts. | | | |
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TORB
Berrima NSW Australia
Grape Fermenter
Posts: 547
| | 09-21-2003 08:12 PM |
| I have a 96 Command getting close to the top of the tasting pile, I will let you know what its like when it surfaces. | | Cheers Ric
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jaimetown
DC area
Wine Labeler
Posts: 3553
| | 12-22-2004 12:13 AM |
| We had a bottle of this on Saturday, and it was drinking very well. A polished Shiraz that went very well with lamb. 92 points. | | | |
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Seaquam
Barrel Filler
Posts: 1141
| | 10-18-2005 09:37 PM |
| Had this on Sunday. Rich fruit, smooth texture, long finish. 92 pts sounds right on. | | | |
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TORB
Berrima NSW Australia
Grape Fermenter
Posts: 547
| | 10-19-2005 05:06 AM |
| Sequ,
IMNotSoHumbleBigotedOpinion this wine is over-ripe and going pruny. I don't think much of it at all. | | Cheers Ric
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