Domaine A Stoney Vineyard Reserve Pinot Noir 2004 Friday, May 9 2008
Tasting Notes and Australia and Tasmania and Variety and Red and pinot noir
I know what you’re thinking, here goes Lincoln with that weird descriptor, but this does smell like sausage meat. It does. I might be odd but I hope I am consistently so. There are also aromas of red fruits, spices and smoke, but all this is dominated by spicy tomato sauce and sausages. The palate is, to be honest, a bit feral, with plums and red cherries, minerals, hints of meats and stalks, and wild sauvage character. The finish is little warm and metallic. Very odd indeed, though good persistence through the palate, with some creaminess, but the sweet tomato sauce confection pushes the wine well to the left of field. A tough one to rate.
Rated : 87 Points
Tasted : Oct07
Alcohol : 13.5%
Price : $42
Closure : Cork
Drink : 2008 - 2010
Source : Festival Cellars
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May 9th, 2008 at 9:04 am| Quote |
Jay Miller uses the sausage meat descriptor too.
GW
May 9th, 2008 at 11:28 am| Quote |
Recently had the 98 Cabernet from Domaine A and it was lovely. Only just starting to taste like it was doing the ageing thing, and that it had more years to go. Still beautiful fruit, soft tannins.So I’m disappointed his Pinot isn’t too crash hot!
May 9th, 2008 at 1:10 pm| Quote |
I bought a couple of bottles of this at the CD last Christmas. It was destined to be the Domaine A pinot, but deemed not up to scratch. No doubt it was impossible to blend it back into the regular Stoney Vineyard wine by that time, so it gets this ‘Stoney Reserve’ moniker.
They agreed it’s a relatively early drinker.
I figured on giving it another year or two to let it calm down a little. I allowed the price was fair for a ‘non-mainstream’ kind of wine (and well under the $70-odd for the Dom. A label).
An interesting winery - they’re bottling the Domaine A wines under cork, and the cheaper Stoney label under Diam.
Graeme
May 9th, 2008 at 4:43 pm| Quote |
Coincidentally I was at a trade tasting on Monday and tried a whole assortment of the Domain A & Stoney Vineyard stuff. Not one of the Pinots did it for me - that metallic edge seemed characteristic to all the Stoney Vineyard Pinots & the Domaine A’s all seemed hard and green.
However, the 01 Domaine A Cabernet was a beautifully formed, willowy, perfectly varietal cool climate Cabernet that was fantastic in every way. I don’t even know if it is commercially available, a back vintage or what, but a wine I would highly recommend - It will go for another decade too. The younger wines could well go the same way - It all just needs yrs to come together.
Junior
May 10th, 2008 at 12:45 pm| Quote |
I’ve always thought you were consistently odd
May 10th, 2008 at 1:00 pm| Quote |
AndrewG said :
It’s available from Canterbury Wines, Cloudwine and Wine Empire starting @ $58.50pb, $65 at CD, it is the current release I think.
May 10th, 2008 at 5:19 pm| Quote |
I tried the first of my Domaine A cabernet 2000s about a year ago and it was nowhere near ready. Still as tight as a drum. The cabs seem to be very long term wines.
May 13th, 2008 at 1:24 pm| Quote |
Zhan said :
I’ve got an 01 in the cellar and I was thinking about opening that soon. Might give it a bit longer I think…
May 13th, 2008 at 1:30 pm| Quote |
Had a 2000 Domaine A last year and I thought it showed very well, if not possibly a bit bretty.
GW