[TN] '04 Tyrell's Vat 8 Cab/Shiraz

Mar 11, 2012 2 Replies
M

With tonight's dinner of grilled steaks, we opened a bottle recently purchased:


2004 Tyrell's Vat 8 Cabernet-Shiraz (Hunter Valley, Mudgee) nose: pencil lead, cedar, black cherries, oak palate: smooth tannins, medium-full body, long finish

Still quite primary, though also feeling quite mature, I'd have probably guessed that this was a mature CalCab had I been tasting it blind. Quite restrained and very appealing with the steaks, it had little discernible Syrah character that I could pick up, despite being 87% Syrah. For the NZD 13 we paid for this wine locally, quite the QPR purchase.



Mark Lipton


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L

Sounds like a great buy. Still in Kiwi land I see. I assume this one is not available in the US.

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M

Yes, we'll be here for another month. Dunno about US availability on this one, but I'll note here that we purchased the wine at a very good wine retailer in Christchurch. Decant is a retailer/deli run by David Graham, who is passionate and knowledgeable about wine. Much of his selection is French (he's got a great selection from the Arbois, of all things!) but his NZ and Oz selections cater to a Europhilic palate such as wine.

Mark Lipton

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