TN: Seppelt Mount Ida Shiraz 2008

[Waiters Friend]

My second last bottle of this vintage. A wine I have been buying a six pack of from 2012 vintage onwards. Decanted an hour before sevice.

Purple black in colour and almost opaque. A heady mix of fruit and savoury characters on the nose, with black plums, polished leather, juicy blackberries, mulberries and cedary oak. Given the age of the wine, I was expecting more red fruits, and I was pleasantly surprised - there's the merest hint of raaspberry on the nose, and none on the palate, which is more savoury than fruit-sweet. There's plenty of tannic grip, and more leather, with the fruits now being more stewed and less overtly fresh. Good supporting acid, and the wine is full and long.

It would be interesting to see a vertical of this wine from, say 2012 back into the 1990s. I suspect the younger wines would still be fresh, and the older wines fascinating. Alas, I don't hold the stock for this.

Cheers
Allan

[JamieAdelaide]

Enjoying a 2002 now. Still going strong! 20 years under screw cap sees the palate fresh and slightly unevolved. Long and spiky acidity and still deceptively tannic. Leaving the rest a decade just for kicks.

High quality wine.

[phillisc]

I haven't been down to the cellar for a little while but have 94?96/98/02 (old Tisdall label) and then some Seppelts through to 2019. Will have to rifle through a few boxes to see what's what. Cracking Shiraz and last vintage cost me $34 a bottle.
Cheers Craig

[JamieAdelaide]

Is the style holding up these days? I bought my 02’s at Parafield on the way back from a disappointing Barossa trip for mid $20’s. Screw cap would make it pretty boring for a decade plus I reckon- so perhaps the wine won’t draw immediate or lasting accolades from punters who try early on.

[Waiters Friend]

You're both rights, Craig and Jamie. I reckon these are a 7-10 year proposition before cracking the screwcap for the first time, and that is how those in my cellar are shaping up. They should also be a 20+ cellaring proposition as a result.