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Esprit Barossa Valley Red Rhone Blend
Barossa Valley, Barossa, South Australia, Australia
Opens with vanilla, raspberry highlights, black fruited foundation, nice acidity and fine savoury tannin. Needed a good couple of hours for it to all come together with an earthy broad savoury finesse and finish. Next time (I’ve got 5 bottles left) will begin with a 2 hour decant and cut to where I like it :)
Opens with vanilla, raspberry highlights, black fruited foundation, nice acidity and fine savoury tannin. Needed a good couple of hours for it to all come together with an earthy broad savoury finesse and finish. Next time (I’ve got 5 bottles left) will begin with a 2 hour decant and cut to where I like it :)
Mar 21st, 2020
2002 was showing well, lots of old word charm in. Barossa red. Cool wine
2002 was showing well, lots of old word charm in. Barossa red. Cool wine
Apr 11th, 2017
Stunning, generous but refined, Moreish but you want nothing more to savour the glass. Olympian gymnast balance.
Stunning, generous but refined, Moreish but you want nothing more to savour the glass. Olympian gymnast balance.
Feb 3rd, 2017
An Aussie version of CDP with Mataro Grenache Shiraz Carignan and Cinsault. Savoury yet fulsome. Notes of cherry and butterscotch. As this has aged the components of the wine have become less identifiable and the wine has become more one dimensional. A good blended wine. Drink in 5 years from vintage.
An Aussie version of CDP with Mataro Grenache Shiraz Carignan and Cinsault. Savoury yet fulsome. Notes of cherry and butterscotch. As this has aged the components of the wine have become less identifiable and the wine has become more one dimensional. A good blended wine. Drink in 5 years from vintage.
Oct 12th, 2015Seductively perfumed; musky and floral with a plethora of red fruits with a dusting of spice and earth. Palate throws in some red apple skin and plum. It's so effortless it could be mistaken for lacking complexity buts it's not; impressive tannin structure and acid helps carry the fruit throughout the finish.
Seductively perfumed; musky and floral with a plethora of red fruits with a dusting of spice and earth. Palate throws in some red apple skin and plum. It's so effortless it could be mistaken for lacking complexity buts it's not; impressive tannin structure and acid helps carry the fruit throughout the finish.
Jul 28th, 2015Not showing the complexity one would expect from 5 different Rhone grape varieties and an Artisan Winemaker. A little too ripe and simple. Some cherry notes. 16.
Not showing the complexity one would expect from 5 different Rhone grape varieties and an Artisan Winemaker. A little too ripe and simple. Some cherry notes. 16.
Apr 15th, 2015
Big juicy but not overbearing and some rather lovely acidity in the mouth
Big juicy but not overbearing and some rather lovely acidity in the mouth
Sep 12th, 2014
Bigger fruit than last night's CdP but equally marvellous
Bigger fruit than last night's CdP but equally marvellous
Aug 3rd, 2014
Stunner - just dense & inky, brooding effusive nose of a berry compote, rich ripe saturated with pervasive spine of minerality, Herbes de Provence. Just jaw dropping. So soft & plush on palate, like sinking into an old Cadillac, crushed velvet, gobs of dark fruit, sweet baking spices, pepper and extraordinary length on finish. Tasted w/vintner prior to release (knew it would be epic) - drank & sold a lot of this. In the zone now w/many years ahead
Stunner - just dense & inky, brooding effusive nose of a berry compote, rich ripe saturated with pervasive spine of minerality, Herbes de Provence. Just jaw dropping. So soft & plush on palate, like sinking into an old Cadillac, crushed velvet, gobs of dark fruit, sweet baking spices, pepper and extraordinary length on finish. Tasted w/vintner prior to release (knew it would be epic) - drank & sold a lot of this. In the zone now w/many years ahead
Jul 24th, 2021