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Thursday, January 10, 2013
Darling Cellars Premium Darling Cabernet Sauvignon 2009 75+ Points
Garnet hue, brown towards the rim.
Clean, moderate plus intensity, very ripe, raisiny, quite peppery and herbaceous, slight mechanical oil note, gamey, atypical for a Cabernet with rusty note, subtle oaking probably high proportion of neutral old oak barrel.
Dry with dash residual sugar, low tannins, tad soapy in texture, savoury with moderate acidity, hints of tin tomato paste on back palate, warm profile with very high alcohol of 14.5% abv, now until 2017.
