| Vaughan Hanly's 90th Birthday dinner at the Paris-Brest, Perth Hills (17/11/06) - Colour: maroon-garnet. Nose: Wonderfully open, lifted blackberries and ripe plums. Palate: Ultra-smooth, elegant and rich, sweet plum fruit core, subtle savoury oak with blackberries and complex aged flavours of chocolate, leather, hints of spice and mushrooms. Silky smooth tannins add to the elegance of the wine, which keeps going long after you've swallowed the wine. Comments: A fantastically pleasurable drink, truly an iconic Australian Shiraz. This wine was double decanted about 4 hours before we drank it with our dinner at this lovely restaurant in Kalamunda, nestled in the Perth Hills. A truly wonderful drink from a wonderful vintage to celebrate the 90th birthday of a wonderful person, who is, in my humble opinion, as iconic in Australian classical music, violin performance and pedagogy as this (and the next) wine in the Australian wine circle. |
