this does not taste australian

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Joel Stewart

Joel Stewart
clarendon hills piggot range syrah - 1997

down under has turned upside down. i have had this before and will have it again. basically everything auz in my cellar i could give away except for this wine. decanted 12 hrs, drinking out of burg glass. dogs and cats cohabitating. italian nebbiolo colors with orange bricking on rim. where does it end?

garrigue, strawberry compote and meat on the nose (no mocha...hooray!). the palate elicits physical sighs...finally, someone down there can finesse this grape.

this is all rhone to me. excellent acidity, fruit is underdone if anything, but there. loads of earth and iron tangy notes. think meat in all it's saltiness, with a red wine and berry infused reduction sauce on the side. add melted butter in the mid palate and finish with a well aged cigar. it stands not at military attention, but naturally good posture... upright. mouthfeel is as it should be for a well made wine of this age...silky. i could go on, but...
 
You don't mention the alcohol. In the last year I've had two 1998 Cascabel Grenache Et Al imported by Grateful Palate that weren't high alcohol at all, 13 percent. While maybe they weren't as amazing as your wine, they were still special.
I guess Grateful Palate got out of the import business for wines not made by the importer but I've been thinking about starting a thread asking for suggestions for other lower alcohol Assuie wine.
Of course, if you're wine is 15 percent or higher my post is completely off target.
 
That is very great news... I have a single bottle of this exact wine and now I am really looking forward to drinking it..somehow my cellar swelled with over 240 bottles of Aussie wines(from a different era of palate preference) and usually I am disappointed when I open one...the auction market is quite unkind to these wines so selling them doesn't make much sense.. Notes such as this one give me hope of finding "gems" hidden in amongst them.
 
originally posted by drssouth:
That is very great news... I have a single bottle of this exact wine and now I am really looking forward to drinking it..somehow my cellar swelled with over 240 bottles of Aussie wines(from a different era of palate preference) and usually I am disappointed when I open one...the auction market is quite unkind to these wines so selling them doesn't make much sense.. Notes such as this one give me hope of finding "gems" hidden in amongst them.
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yeh..good news is great if you have the wine. i vouch not for any other wine by this maker nor vintage, but this wine i found poetic in a write home kind of way..
 
originally posted by SteveTimko:
Lower alcoholYou don't mention the alcohol. In the last year I've had two 1998 Cascabel Grenache Et Al imported by Grateful Palate that weren't high alcohol at all, 13 percent. While maybe they weren't as amazing as your wine, they were still special.
I guess Grateful Palate got out of the import business for wines not made by the importer but I've been thinking about starting a thread asking for suggestions for other lower alcohol Assuie wine.
Of course, if you're wine is 15 percent or higher my post is completely off target.
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well it is true...14.5 percent motivates the drunken post more than 13....
 
originally posted by Joel Stewart:
originally posted by drssouth:
That is very great news... I have a single bottle of this exact wine and now I am really looking forward to drinking it..somehow my cellar swelled with over 240 bottles of Aussie wines(from a different era of palate preference) and usually I am disappointed when I open one...the auction market is quite unkind to these wines so selling them doesn't make much sense.. Notes such as this one give me hope of finding "gems" hidden in amongst them.
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yeh..good news is great if you have the wine. i vouch not for any other wine by this maker nor vintage, but this wine i found poetic in a write home kind of way..
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Indeed this is exactly how I interpreted the meaning of your post! Very few individuals can screw up what might have been good wines any better than Roman what's his name at Clarendon Hills!!
 
originally posted by drssouth:
originally posted by Joel Stewart:
originally posted by drssouth:
That is very great news... I have a single bottle of this exact wine and now I am really looking forward to drinking it..somehow my cellar swelled with over 240 bottles of Aussie wines(from a different era of palate preference) and usually I am disappointed when I open one...the auction market is quite unkind to these wines so selling them doesn't make much sense.. Notes such as this one give me hope of finding "gems" hidden in amongst them.
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yeh..good news is great if you have the wine. i vouch not for any other wine by this maker nor vintage, but this wine i found poetic in a write home kind of way..
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Indeed this is exactly how I interpreted the meaning of your post! Very few individuals can screw up what might have been good wines any better than Roman what's his name at Clarendon Hills!!
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yeh, roman (not polanski)bratusiak clarendon

97 was a fuckin good year for him

...and us
 
originally posted by Steve Guattery:
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Rosemary's Baby for '68 and Chinatown for '73, first.
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Don't forget "Knife in the Water".
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Or "Repulsion"!

One of the only palatable Catherine Deneuve roles (w Buuel).

Joel, never saw his Macbeth. Now, of course, curiosity is piqued.
 
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