Magpie Estate The Theif Rose 2005
Light Red with Cherries and herbs on the nose. The palate is quite disjointed it is sharp on the opening and then quite hard on the back palate. Finishes is a bit short as well. I must add that it is not a style of wine I generally enjoy but I don't think this was a great example.
Magpie Estate The Schnell Shiraz Grenache 2004
Lovely spices on the nose with a unusual sweet character as well, this was obviously from the grenache but I couldn't really describe it, not unpleasant though. Red with a tinge of purple in colour. Spices and pepper with some pleasant fruit in there as well nice balance across the palate and would make a good BBQ wine which is what they were aiming for I guess.
Magpie Estate The Wit & Shanker 2003
Deep garnet in colour rich nose with dark fruits and some olives. On the palate was more fruit with some nice oak well in the background good gripping tanins with nice depth of flavour and medium length. A big step up in quality from the first 2 and I was enticed to grab a bottle to take home to have with the beef curry which was a good match.
Magpie Estate The Sack Shiraz 2004Deep red purple in colour plums and dark berries on the nose. Some nice dark berry flavours on the palate but no sign of over ripeness oak in the background, this is a well balanced wine that finish slightly off sweet. Needs a little while to settle down but I really liked it.
Magpie Estate The Black Sock mourvedre 2003
Spices olives and what I could swear was tomato on the nose. This is an unusual wine off sweet and at this stage a little disjointed, I think I just don't get this grape to be honest. Could come together down the track a bit but seemed to be a bit arms and legs at the moment.
Magpie Estate The Gomersal grenache 2004
Light Red in colour, Pepper and some sweet fruit on the nose next dip showed some spices this is the real deal. Lovely balance across the palate with more spices and red berry flavours fantastic length and the wine kept changing for about 30 sec or so excellent stuff.
Magpie Estate The Election Shiraz 2004
Deep dark purple with plums pepper and dark cherries on the nose. Nice dusty tanins and good balance more cherry flavours and deep seated fruit on the palate lovely wine that could do with a few years sleep.
All in all a nice line up of wines and a very enjoyable evening. The Gomersal was the standout in my books shame about the price tag. Probably not over the top but at the high end of my price range
Glen
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I knew there was an explanation.
. One of these days I will learn to express myself better using the written word.