Kohen
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hope I'll be on the list in time to sample the vintage!
Was a 12 month wait for me, less than 1000 doz
When did you apply?
hope I'll be on the list in time to sample the vintage!
8 months ago. Roger said 18-24 months at the time..Was a 12 month wait for me, less than 1000 doz
When did you apply?
8 months ago. Roger said 18-24 months at the time..
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Good luck for this year - took home some unreleased 15 Simpatico and Symphony
See how it fairs in the colder months...
Hi Kohen,
any insider reports on the 2015 vintage?
How was that old Yattarna? I have some.
think you might have read those words in the wrong order!Vintages are all listed in Wozza's post?
The last Yattarna I opened had a cork issue in that the cork pretty much disintegrated. It was fro the first production so I haven't opened another one. The taste was ok.
is that coffee filter paper on the decanter ?
I'm not sure, Afro. Our Sommelier was doing all sorts of tricks to keep the wines in optimum condition through the afternoon and evening. She was amazing. One or two of the wines probably needed longer decants. Most of the reds were opened around 4 pm, and were consumed between 8 pm and 11 pm. The Astralis was a gift on the night, so was not opened until 7 on, and it took quite a while to rid it of its initial pong and open up in the glass. That was probably a mistake opening that so late. But we have another to try this Friday where the Sommelier will have more time to work with the wine.
Nice write up but one must wonder what a wine must do to get a 98, 99 or 100.
Nice write up but one must wonder what a wine must do to get a 98, 99 or 100.
Nice write up but one must wonder what a wine must do to get a 98, 99 or 100.
At the risk of raining on Wozza’s birthday parade, I wasn’t quite as impressed with the HOG as others at the table. It was a very nice wine, but for me it really was not expressing the quintessential Barossan shiraz characteristics that I was expecting from the wine. In some regards it almost tasted more like an aged Cab Sav than an aged shiraz. I also found the mid-palate a little unbalanced, with a few rough edges showing through. I was really excepting a bigger richer mid-palate experience from the HOG. Something more akin to an aged Meshach. We tasted the HOG alongside an ’02 Austalis, and whilst the Astralis was a little more closed, due to the short decant, I felt that it had better structure and was a little more complete than the HOG. I would rate the HOG at 95/100 and the Astralis at 96/100. So at the end of the day it comes down to personal preference and expectations. Still a very fine wine though, and a fantastic event.
You need to get it reviewed by James Halliday or Robert Parker!
In all seriousness though, there's a lot of wine in the world - Australia produces thousands of labels every year. And Bordeaux alone produces more wine than all of Australia combined. Even though a wine might be an Australian flagship doesn't mean that it's necessarily a good vintage for that wine, or that it was opened at the right time, or that it's that great compared to everything else available in the world. Edit: not to mention all the subjective factors that creep in: what else you've drunk, what you're eating, what your preferences are, what altitude you're drinking the wine at, whether you've got a cold etc. etc. etc.