Thread: TN: New World pain

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Salil <[email protected]> wrote:

> 2006 Bilancia Syrah (Hawkes Bay)
> Great first impressions with a fantastic nose. Lots of white pepper,
> spices and red and dark fruits with some smoked meat aromas emerging
> later with time. The palate though is a huge letdown with thin
> flavours of red fruits and spices. This has good acidity but just
> seems to lack body and finishes weakly. Disappointing, particularly as
> I had a bottle of this a month ago that tasted much better.
>
> 2006 Black Kite Pinot Noir Redwood's Edge (Anderson Valley)
> Like the Bilancia, this did a lot for me on the nose at first and then
> disappointed in the mouth. Beautiful aromas of cherry, strawberry,
> earth and clove. Unlike the Bilancia, it's a case of too much on the
> palate. This feels clunky and overextracted with dense red fruit
> flavours and spices, moderate acidity and soft tannins. With time some
> volatile acidity starts to come out on the nose. Drinkable, but not
> complex or interesting and the sheer density of this made it difficult
> to keep going back to the glass.
>
> 1997 Glaetzer Shiraz (Barossa Valley)
> Good grief, this is brutal. One sniff of the glass and I'm assaulted
> by a ton of oak, dried red fruits and plastic-like notes. A sip was no
> better, and I felt like picking splinters out of my tongue. With age
> the fruit seems to have disappeared completely and left behind a
> disjointed mess of oak, dry tannin and alcohol. Is this how the likes
> of Amon-Ra might age? Atrocious and undrinkable (if you can even get
> past the nose).
>
> NV Trevor Jones Old Barossa Muscat (Barossa Valley)
> Amber-gold colour. Tons of raisin, dried white fruits, fig, orange
> peel and ethanol and volatile acidity on the nose. Intensely sweet on
> the palate with the same flavours. I like this style when it's done
> well (Buller in particular), but this wasn't one of those examples
> with the alcohol being very prominent even with the wine served quite
> cold.
>
> After this I think I urgently need a nice low alcohol Kabinett or
> Spatlese this weekend.

Are any of these available in the US? I have not seen these wines
before. Thanks for the notes Salil.

On Sep 19, 9:31 pm, Lawrence Leichtman <la...@lleichtman.org> wrote:
> In article
> <6faa0d04-b2c1-4460-8da9-e8c2b8181...@y21g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
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>
> Salil <salilbene...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2006 Bilancia Syrah (Hawkes Bay)
> > Great first impressions with a fantastic nose. Lots of white pepper,
> > spices and red and dark fruits with some smoked meat aromas emerging
> > later with time. The palate though is a huge letdown with thin
> > flavours of red fruits and spices. This has good acidity but just
> > seems to lack body and finishes weakly. Disappointing, particularly as
> > I had a bottle of this a month ago that tasted much better.
>
> > 2006 Black Kite Pinot Noir Redwood's Edge (Anderson Valley)
> > Like the Bilancia, this did a lot for me on the nose at first and then
> > disappointed in the mouth. Beautiful aromas of cherry, strawberry,
> > earth and clove. Unlike the Bilancia, it's a case of too much on the
> > palate. This feels clunky and overextracted with dense red fruit
> > flavours and spices, moderate acidity and soft tannins. With time some
> > volatile acidity starts to come out on the nose. Drinkable, but not
> > complex or interesting and the sheer density of this made it difficult
> > to keep going back to the glass.
>
> > 1997 Glaetzer Shiraz (Barossa Valley)
> > Good grief, this is brutal. One sniff of the glass and I'm assaulted
> > by a ton of oak, dried red fruits and plastic-like notes. A sip was no
> > better, and I felt like picking splinters out of my tongue. With age
> > the fruit seems to have disappeared completely and left behind a
> > disjointed mess of oak, dry tannin and alcohol. Is this how the likes
> > of Amon-Ra might age? Atrocious and undrinkable (if you can even get
> > past the nose).
>
> > NV Trevor Jones Old Barossa Muscat (Barossa Valley)
> > Amber-gold colour. Tons of raisin, dried white fruits, fig, orange
> > peel and ethanol and volatile acidity on the nose. Intensely sweet on
> > the palate with the same flavours. I like this style when it's done
> > well (Buller in particular), but this wasn't one of those examples
> > with the alcohol being very prominent even with the wine served quite
> > cold.
>
> > After this I think I urgently need a nice low alcohol Kabinett or
> > Spatlese this weekend.
>
> Are any of these available in the US? I have not seen these wines
> before. Thanks for the notes Salil.

The Bilancia Syrah isn't - I had purchased that in Singapore. The rest
are - the Black Kite is from a Cali mailing list, and the Glaetzer and
Trevor Jones Muscat are both available in retail (I think I bought
them at HDH).

Cheers,
Salil