Wine thread

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2018 Clonakilla Pinot Noir.

Whole berries, wild yeast. Classic Tim Kirk style. Even at 6 years old it's perfumed and super elegant. Raspberry, strawberry, vine leaves, intense clove, forest and wet stone. The fruit has gone ever so slightly towards cordial with age, but in some ways the wine is better for it.

 

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2022 Weerona/Partridge Laying Geese Shiraz, Hunter Valley.

Really aromatic, surprisingly so tbh for a Hunter shiraz especially. Ripe berry bunches, cola, vanilla. Medium bodied, definitely fruit driven with loads of berries, but it does lean into cola and sour cherry on the palate, adds a little spice, and finishes surprisingly lean and lively. Nothing earth shattering, but it's a ridiculously drinkable shiraz.