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Blue Pyrenees Estate
The Richardson Series Cabernet Sauvignon 2012
This is the diet that Victorians must have! Pyrenees (not French Pyrenees) cabernet is a very individual animal here; meaty, dried herbs, tobacco, eucalypt, herbage, earth, no red or black fruits; rounded but slight taut tannins on finish; oak hidden, 13.5%, named after an old colleague who was so generous in helping a young Brisbane boy become a master of wine; Colin Richardson 2012; #victoria #pyrenees #cabernet #bluepyrenees — 10 years ago
Peter Scudamore-Smith MW
In an era of making cabernets for softies here is one with poise and structure; hard to find but another group gave it a trophy; recognition of completeness at such a young age; has a tannic seam setting it apart from many floppy Coonawarras and Margaret Rivers who think to have claimed the pinnacle; tautly wound flavours of tobacco and olive, no raw fruit flavours only finesse here with a coulis of tastes; Blue Pyrenees Estate #avoca 2012 cabernet 68%, merlot 22%, malbec 8%, shiraz 2% (probably used for topping); #drinkoz #drinkvictoria #pyrenees #bluepyrenees #estateblend 14%, AUD 40 #cabernetsauvignon #merlot #malbec #shiraz ; long ager too, think decades; a wine one must try; tasted alongside Segla 2005 from Margaux in magnum; similar tannins just drier! — 9 years ago