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Any tasting notes on this wine "Weapon of Mass Seduction" available from CD?

It was in tonights Blacktongues tasting, no doubt N4sir will post his full and comprehensive impressions in a day or two.

I rated it highly for potential, it's just too young at present. It's a brooding mass of dark fruits, still a bit disjointed but powerful stuff. I'd like to see it in another five years, it will be humming then.

From http://www.torbwine.com

Kaesler 2002 “No Name Shiraz Cabernet Blend” SA2004 will be released at the end of 2004. I guess Reid was kind enough to show me this wine as last year we discussed this blend and I asked him why they were not doing one. Whilst the wine does not have a formal name yet, Reid has an appropriate internal code name of “The Weapon of Mass Seduction” and it is anticipated that it will sell at about the $100 level. At that price, it would want to be good! The wine will not be made every year, just when the conditions are good enough to produce a special wine. The drainings are kept and then blended back into the ferment, which then goes into specially selected barrels for final fermentation and ageing. It is a 2/3 Shiraz 1/3 Cabernet blend. The nose was closed but one sniff said, “I am as serious as my price tag.” I was in lust already. I love tasting a wine like this; what do I rave about first? The fruit or the structure? Both are seriously good. Distinct, deeply-seated fruit flows across the palate with black fruit flavours, plums, dark chocolate and subtle mint. Barrel fermentation is a big contributor to a lovely mouth-feel and abundant, dusty, puckering tannins glide across the tongue with the grace and length of a champion long distance skier. This sophisticated wine is incredibly tight and needs at least another six years to start to begin to show what it is made of, preferably more. Rated as Excellent now, the rating should improve as the wine matures; by how much I don’t know but it could be a classic - time will tell.

Thanks Ric, At $100 a pop, this wine will never seduced the masses. Should renamed "Weapon of Mistress Seduction"

Actually its $70 from CD.

Adam wrote:Actually its $70 from CD.

Thanks Adam, looks like they reset the bar, now I am seriously going to have to think about getting some.

It was in tonights Blacktongues tasting, no doubt N4sir will post his full and comprehensive impressions in a day or two.

The Blacktongues notes could be a while coming, as my computer completely snuffed it last Sunday just after I posted my weekly notes. I'm looking for a new PC over the next couple of weekends.

Needless to say it was a huge-framed wine (actually the whole line-up was full of tannic, teeth-staining heavyweights this time) that's miles off its best.

Cheers
Ian