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93
/ 100
Gary Walsh
Red
Classification
Nebbiolo
Variety
2010
Vintage
750ml (Bottle)
Bottle Size
Australia
Country
Victoria, Beechworth
Region
14.0%
Alcohol %
15 Plus Years
Cellaring
Scores
93 / 100"I had a mind to drink some Barbaresco tonight, then this came in, so I opened both. Curiously, the Cortese Rabaja is the cheaper wine. Seems like this wine, like most good Nebbiolo, is going to play a long term game. I like the shape, the vitality, and the classic styling it offers, and along with cherry fruit it has liquorice and strong black tea aromatics with some rose perfume. There’s a bitter herbal/stalky element that intrudes a little too much, specifically to smell, and a little less so to taste. I’d rather it were not there, though it may well resolve with age. It’s a really good tilt at a notoriously difficult grape. Watch this space."
- Gary Walsh
Tasting Notes
Totally opaque black dark purple colour with a deep dark purple hue. Perfumed aromas of dark plum, liquorice and black cherries are interwoven with subtle clove overtones followed by dried meats and black pepper. Medium bodied with a refined elegant mouthfeel the palate features flavours of dark plum and black cherries overlaid by smoky dried meat and clove like characters with a touch of liquorice also present and some spicy pepper on the finish. Very fine grained velvet like tannins. Long conclusion of spicy dark plum, black cherry, liquorice, smoky clove like characters and peppered dried meats. A cool climate Shiraz of great finesse, refinement and complexity.
Tasting Profile
- Light
- Full
- Low Tannin
- Tannic
- Sweet
- Dry
- Low Acidity
- High Acidity