Well it's been some time since I've sat down to document my thoughts and feelings about a bottle of wine and let me tell you the words aren't flowing easily. This bottle has been sitting down in the cellar for some time but after my recent poor experiences with corks I have decided to pull out everything Australian under cork and work my way through them.
The nose is lifted with plum and fruit cake, it's a little hot but shows some liquorice spice and dark choc. Palate is a little thin but the blocky dense monster this wine used to be has settled with the oak integrating and the fruit still shining. Fruit cake, plum, star anise, cloves, choc and glazed cherry sum this wine up but it's still quite hot with the alcohol not really integrating.
I can't really find any critic reviews out there other than the guys at Nick's giving it the thumbs up with 94, I'm going to disagree on this one as I think although it's aged relatively gracefully and the blockyness has settled it's a bit thin and stewed plus it's missing a bit of mid palate.
$60 when I brought it and $79.99 if you buy it now from Nicks but for me if you threw down a $50 you'd probably be a little disappointed.
The cork held up in this instance but the wine wasn't up to it unfortunately. Ho Hum...
