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Gavin Trott
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 | | 12/13/2002 5:34 AM |
| Hello all
My thanks to Glen (highdesertwines) for posting some earlier tasting notes of mine from a mailout.
I thought I'd post some from my most recent one for two reasons.
Firstly, the wines were very good and some labels you would likely know.
Secondly, these are the results of a panel decision, details below.
I hope you enjoy them.
Prices I've decided to include FYI, they are in $Aud, for $US approximately halve them.
Our Panel Tasting, new stars emerge
The panel, Mark Day wine maker Maxwell Wines, Michael Fullgrabe part owner Rogues Gallery Wines, Sam Clapp wine exporter, and myself. All wines tasted and noted blind (the wines, not us!)
2001 Kaesler Wines Stonehorse Geelong Chardonnay- Medium yellow colour, with a delightful nose of nectarine, melon, butter and toast. This is a beautifully made and structured wine, still tight, with great weight, length and a touch of style. The palate has plenty of melon and fig; light peach and vanilla with hints of lees character and chalky tannins. This is a refined elegant wine of great quality, and offers great value for money.! $17.50 pb $105 for the 6 pack Simply great value for money, I've not had a Chardonnay as good for <$20 for ages.
2001 Kaesler Avignon Grenache Shiraz Mourvedre - The colour is a clear red, bright and inviting. The nose is quite complex with strong Grenache whiffs of white pepper and raspberries, along with meatier notes and plums from the Shiraz and Mourvedre, and some vanilla from the firm oak. The palate is very rich given this is a medium weight wine, loads of soft fruit, dark and deep berries with hints of earthy overtones, with fine savoury drying tannins on the finish. Loaded with potential, this young wine needs a couple of years to come together and soften down into a delicious rich GSM blend. $33.50 pb $201 for the 6 pack
2001 Cascabel Monastrell - Monastrell is the Spanish name for the variety better known here as Mourvedre or Mataro. While here it is generally a blending grape, in Spain it historically makes rich and dense varietal wines, and Cascabel, with their Spanish influence, are attempting to do the same here, with considerable success I must add. The wine is crimson, a cherry red, deep and dense but with no purple or black we are used to in Australian wines. The nose is a delight, beautiful spicy earthy scents trail off into dense sweet fruits, ever so slightly wild and quite savoury, very inviting indeed. The palate too does not disappoint, textbook Mourvedre flavours, minerals, earth, dusty oak hints, fruits and a really interesting savoury edge. The wine has a long dry tannin finish showing the further potential the wine has. At the moment it is not quite all together and finishes a touch short, 3 years in the cellar will fix this, a very interesting and well made wine with style and personality. $39 pb $234 for the 6 pack
2000 Cascabel Fleurieu Shiraz- They are really on a roll at Cascabel. This wine is a striking cherry red colour, but it's the nose that gets you in first … earthy, chock full of herbs, plums, black berry and brambly fruits, hints of apricot kernels and cracked pepper and much more, a wine of individuality and personality. The palate is full and rich, but bone dry and deliciously savoury, not the sweet fruit dominated style we are used to from McLaren Vale, already complex but only starting its development. One of the more interesting and enjoyable Shiraz wines I've had for a while, highly recommended and will cellar very, very well! $28 pb $168 for the 6 pack
"Medium red, the purple starting to fade a little suggesting the wine may develop reasonably quickly. The bouquet is quite complex, with savoury/briary overtones to the fruit, and nicely controlled oak. The palate is similarly powerful, with pleasingly savoury tannins giving the wine a European touch; carries its 14° alcohol well." 93 points James Halliday of Wine Pros
2000 Kaesler Old Vine Shiraz- This smells and tastes exactly as it is, 100% Old Vine Barossa Valley Shiraz, and all the better for it. Its deep black cherry colour with a delightful nose full of ripe fruit, all spicy black plums and black berries, hints of vanilla beans and silky hints of liquorice, very fleshy and flashy. The palate too lives up to the promise with the same silky and voluptuous mouthfeel all these Kaesler reds seem to get, spicy fruit, sweet oak, rich and soft with fine tannins on a long finish. The wine opened up significantly over time showing more and more layers, one to cellar and decanter before drinking. $44 pb $264 for the 6 pack
2001 Mr Riggs- This is the much awaited wine made by Ben Riggs, once wine maker for Wirra Wirra, and now McLaren Vale consultant extraordinaire! Put together his wine making experience and expertise, with fantastic vineyard resources, and the 2001 vintage and you get this, 100% authentic and high quality McLaren Vale Shiraz. Black red, the nose is highly aromatic showing black fruits, hints of liqueur plums and black berries and spicy new oak, well balanced and defined, plus violets and vanilla. The palate reflects this, rich spicy and chocolatey fruit mingling with ripe tannins and balanced acid to create a delicious and rewarding mouthful of wine … excellent. $36 $36 pb $216 for the 6 pack
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