TN: 2000 Elderton Shiraz Command Vineyard

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Was pop and pour with roasted leg of lamb remnants and a nice Caesar salad.

Nose was a little alcoholic and had quite a bit of vanilla. Still dark as night in the glass with noticable (highly) legs in the glass. First taste and I knew it was one of the wines that make people cringe who don’t like wines from down under. Basically, it was blueberry syrup with vanilla and oak. Way, way off the mark from my previous bottle of this wine last summer. Almost undrinkable…and I am an oak and fruit tolerant kinda guy. I think that wines post '98 made a paradigm shift that I just don’t get anymore, save a very select few.

Probably right up Berto’s alley, and I’ll trade him my last bottle for something he has that I will like. neener

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A couple years ago, I heard someone from Elderton on GrapeRadio. Loved their story, their passion, etc. Charmed me into buying a bottle of the '00 Command. My reaction was the same as yours - bleech. That may have been the final straw which stopped me from buying wines based on interviews w/ people on GrapeRadio.

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The 00 Command wasn’t even the worst wine at SLONYC.

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You have to ignore King Cab’s scores on the night. Also ignore the second place vote cast for the dog of the night - the 2002 Shirvington. The guy who brought the wine cast the vote.

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IS that very nice? Hellava way to not get invited back. [basic-smile.gif]
I stand by what I said. It was decent and on its own would not have ended up in the sink… [tease.gif]

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I’ve liked this wine when I’ve had it in the past…that said, I haven’t had it in 3-4 years…sounds like many Aussies I’ve been hearing about recently.

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I would much rather drink the 2005 Climbing Shiraz($7.99 Aussie braising wine which my wife opened tonight to cook with, which has some nice leather and orange marmalade notes along with some oak and a clearly cooler climate feel) to the 2000 Dead Arm syrup bomb. Not shocked that the Climbing was an Aussie, but clearly more of a Hunter or Victoria style. I’m hating almost all aged Aussie shiraz these days.

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Ok - I m also losing alot of love for the aged Aussie style of the last few years. But had a 2001 Shirvington Shiraz last week that blew me away. It was not a typical aussie vignette. It almost reminded me of a semi sweet aged port. I know it sounds wierd, but imagine not knowing what it was “supposed to be”, this wine was phenomenal. flirtysmile

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Dude - you gave the ‘02 Shirvington 87 points! Just sayin’. [pwn.gif]

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It actually drank pretty decent for about 15 minutes. Remember, Its not great bottles, its only great windows of oppurtunity…

Then, sure…it DIVED.

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The 2002 Shirvington drank great for 15 minutes?

When? In barrel, when you nailed the vintage? neener