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Cuvee Juveniles - The Wine Companion (James Halliday)
2009
Light but clear red-crimson; a fresh, fruity, easy drinking style, the screwcap doing its job well. Ideal summer red style. Grenache/Shiraz/Mataro. Screwcap. 14.5% alc.
Drink:
2013 |
Date Tasted:
Nov 10
2008
Bright crimson; full of lively sweet berry fruits and soft tannin in support; for drinking, not analysis. Grenache/Shiraz/Mataro. Screwcap.
14.5% alc.
Drink:
2012 |
Date Tasted:
Feb 09
2007
Clean and fresh; a light- to medium-bodied, fruitdriven array of red and black fruits;fine-grained tannins; good length. Greache/Mourvedre/Shiraz.
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2012 |
Date Tasted:
Dec 07
2006
Fresh and lively red fruit flavours; Torbreck is on the ball releasing the wine as an early-drinking style. Barossa Valley Grenache/ Mataro/Shiraz. 14.5% alc.
Drink:
2008 |
Date Tasted:
Mar 07
2005
Light red-purple; light-bodied, clean, fresh juicy berry grenache seemingly playing a bigger role than the shiraz. Shiraz/Grenache/Mataro. 14.6% alc.
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2008 |
Date Tasted:
Jul 06
2004
Disconcertingly light colour; light to medium-bodied; pleasant, gently sweet fruit; for immediate drinking.
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2006 |
Date Tasted:
Jul 05
2003
Drink:
2005 |
Date Tasted:
Oct 04
2002
Medium red-purple; fresh, juicy berry aromas are replicated on the palate, which has plenty of flavour yet is very soft and with ripe tannins. Micro-oxygenation may well have been used in this unoaked blend of Grenache, Mourvedre and Shiraz.
Drink:
2005 |
Date Tasted:
Dec 02
2001
Light to medium red-purple; a fragrant and clean bouquet with some herb and mint aspects is followed by a palate in which juicy, jammy grenache varietal flavour dominates the wine; zero tannins, the overall effect equivalent to a high octane Rose, best served slightly chilled.
Drink:
2003
| Date Tasted:
Dec 01
2000
Medium purple-red; the bouquet is clean, quite fresh and spicy, with some gamey varietal character, a character which is often (incorrectly) attributed to brettanomyces. Sweet, soft berry fruit and ripe tannins run through the palate which inevitably shows the absence of oak maturation, but overall works well enough.
Drink:
2005
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Date Tasted:
Jan 01