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» Medium Bodied Dry Red Wines
- From the 2009 Competition
GROVE ESTATE NEBBIOLO 2007
Blue-Gold Award Winner
Judges' Comments
Peter Forrestal
A very good
wine. Wild berries, juicy, briary characters. Some dark berries. A
very dense wine with rich, concentrated flavours and power. Huge
tannins but not unapproachable. Quite ripe and fine. The food
enveloped the tannins. It calmed and swamped them almost. The two of
them balanced each other nicely.
Maurizio Gily
Delightful young
Nebbiolo characters at the nose. Strawberry in the mouth. Well
integrated acidity. Medium length. The tough tannins, even if
ripened, are a character of this variety. Superb match with the food.
Patrick Farrell
Nice, floral,
berry, earthy aromas and flavours. There was very good acidity and
balance. The wine was even more attractive with food and showed
integrated oak and classic Nebbiolo notes of roses and tar. The
tannins seemed much more noble with the food.
Lynnette Hudson
Raspberry
spectrum. Spicy cedar. Vibrant fruit. Lots of oak, giving quite
drying tannins. It seems more tight and tannic with the food. Not
such a good match.
Ken Dobler
Dark cherry in
colour. The nose showing some meat extract and some red fruit
characters. The palate showing lovely cherry and spice. Good length.
The food tended to overpower the wine. This more savoury style of
wine would probably suit a less unctuous dish.
Cathy van Zyl
Vibrant, fresh
and sour cherry nose with whiffs of spice, very firm tannins and sour
cherry acidity. Kind of morello like. Savoury. The tannins might be
too big for some but others might find them balanced. The only
disconcerting fact about this wine was that if finished a little bit
warm. With the food, the alcohol cleaned the palate. The savouriness
was a good contrast with the sweet lamb.
Stephen Harris
Light blueberry
nose with a little bit of a rubbery character in a good way. A
subtle, savoury wine with sweet fruit edges. The wine looked very
hard with the dish. It didn’t marry up too well with the lamb.
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