Brands Laira “The Patron” Cabernet Sauvignon 2004 Sunday, Jul 20 2008
Tasting Notes and Australia and Coonawarra and Variety and Red and cabernet et al and Features and Coonawarra 2004
Just look at all those medals! All the gold you can eat. Eric Brand would certainly have to be “The Patron” of bottle bling.
It’s scented, ripe and intensely blackcurranty with additional cooler flavours of aniseed, flickers of leaf and mint and a good measure of aromatic vanilla and cedar wood oak that’s bedding down nicely. Medium to full bodied and packed with sweet fruit but has some attractive tobacco and leaf flavour adding a little Cabernet strictness to the mix. It has firm fine grained tannins, freshness and clarity and finishes pure and long. Delicious wine, approachable now, but probably much better later. Textbook Coonawarra Cabernet.
Rated : 95 Points
Tasted : Jul08
Alcohol : 15%
Price : $74.99
Closure : Screwcap
Drink : 2009 - 2025
Source : Winery Sample
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3 Responses to “Brands Laira “The Patron” Cabernet Sauvignon 2004”
July 20th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Sounds really good GW.
Out of all the icon Coonawarra reds, which was the most interesting and enjoyable for you?
July 20th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Of the recent ones? All quite different, from different vintages. Opened em Wednesday night and finished tasting Saturday. They all looked amazingly fresh over the duration, except for the fact that the John Riddoch was empty by Saturday…which is a good sign , so probably the JR. The Tally is not a wine to drink now. Patron is excellent but has the least subtle oak of all of them but very enjoyable.
For the personal cellar I’d like a couple of 04 and 05 JR - although I’d be happy to have Patron and Tally in there too. I’m a bit long on local Cabernet already though…
GW
July 20th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Yeah the current ones.
We had the 05 JR about a month ago. It looked really good and very approachable. It was over-shadowed by the 05 Petaluma Coonawarra though.