Sir James Sparkling Shiraz

Brett Stevens · Post by **Brett Stevens** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 4:37 pm

Got some of this NV for Christmas today. wondering if anyone has any tasting notes or vibes, how does it stack up against the seppelt original?

Brett

Gavin Trott · Post by **Gavin Trott** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 4:54 pm

Brett Stevens wrote:Got some of this NV for Christmas today. wondering if anyone has any tasting notes or vibes, how does it stack up against the seppelt original?

Brett

Hi Brett

I can't compare with Seppelt, but I like it quite a bit, a 'real' sparkling Shiraz and a nice wine.

Brett Stevens · Post by **Brett Stevens** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 6:51 pm

Thanks Gavin

I will drink tomorrow and depending on damage will post tasting vibes in a couple of days

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 9:02 pm

Hi Brett.

We tried a bottle of this last year Christmas afternoon, after we had already knocked off a few bottles of reds and whites. The wine was really heavy going after the previous booze. It is your typical really thick, McLaren Vale dark chocolate mudcake, blackberry, black cherry and sweet licorice shiraz characters in a sparkling. Quite enjoyable, but I suggest you drink it early in the day, with a lot of people helping out! I look forward to seeing your notes.

Have a great Xmas!
n4sir

Attila · Post by **Attila** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 8:18 am

I've drunk the Sir James last night, I couldn't finish my glass. Cheap raspberry candy flavours and cloyingly sweet and 'cheap' middle palate. Shocked me quite a bit and down the sink it went. Tonight I'll have the Leasingham SB 1992 and I will post my notes later.
Very, very disappointed with that liquid candy Sir James!
Cheers,
Attila

n4sir · Post by **n4sir** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 5:31 pm

I was a little surprised to see the negative reviews to this given my experience twelve months earlier. I've noticed the design of the labelling has changed - I still have one of the old bottles where there's no show medals, and the burgundy background for the gold shield is almost invisible against the bottle.

Was the bottle you drank Attila purchased recently (with the new labelling)? I'm seriously wondering how drunk I was last Christmas, or if there's significant variation with the new batch.

Normally I don't get it this wrong - I'll have to open the remaining one soon to check.

Ian (n4sir)

Attila · Post by **Attila** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 9:30 pm

Dear Ian,

It's possible that only the current release of this wine is suffering from quality loss, my bottle came from a fresh shipment in December.
Batches differ for sure.
Cheers,
Attila

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