I’ve been waiting for a nice lamb dinner to drink this, it works so well with slow cooked lamb. This thing has just about every marketing/packaging trick known to man (or Riojan man anyway); a marble tinted bottle, gold wire, an iconic label with a huge painting of some dude with a hat. The wine is very good, traditional gran reserva with some very good fruit. Make sure you decant this puppy, Gran Reservas need at least 30 minutes of air time to really show their stuff.
The nose is smoky with a bit of nail polish, stewed cherry, winter green chewing tobacco and a bit of barnyard and cedary oak notes. Super smooth, plenty of stewed red fruits, black currant and blackberry, nutty and woody notes with an excellent backbone of acid, drying finish. Tannin Deluxe. 92 for the traditionalist, don’t bother if old rioja isn’t your thing. A touch of brett might put your nose out of joint…91+ Pts.
Source: Broadway Liquor Distributors Price: $60 Closure: Cork
Glad you liked it. Someone opened a complete shot one for my birthday two years ago, it had just fallen apart, shame.
There is a very notorious story of a bottle of the 95 that some of the guys on StarForum had a couple of years ago…nothing like that is this bottle tho.
I don’t know the story but it was a ‘95 indeed. Cork looked fine but completely oxidized. I think a few are still left in the shop, but I’m a bit wary as they’re from the same case.
Shaggy refers to http://www.winestar.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3419&highlight=ahnoose
The text in particular:
“Faustino I Gran Reserva 1995
The infamous “Shateau Anus” (are-noose)….a wine so diabolical we had to sample it wearing Haz-Mat suits….Chocoblock full of Brett, dogs bung-hole and filtered through an arabian goat-herders undies……absolutely wrong!The bottle’s label had a charming picture of Dr Anus himself….leering out and just reeking of pure evil.
The bottle itself became quite endearing and was the subject of many snaps from Adams digital camera….we dragged it over to the Town Hall Hotel in Newtown for the post tasting knees-up, where it was secretly stashed on the hotels wine rack…..but it mysteriously went missing prompting Adam to wander up to random attractive blondes and ask “Have you seen my anus?”…….Newtown is probably not safe to visit until the bottle is located….and we have all decided the Adair’s new avatar should be none other than Dr Anus himself.
The only good thing about this wine was that it came in a frosted bottle”
Cheers Dave, thanks for digging this one up, this is probably the most hilarious note I’ve ever read ! I mean, serious, this IS funny!
hey mo what shop is this?
A local independent Liquor Baron - as on the bloody label - in Perth. Anyone knows the story of this dude?
do you have any 1982 ? please let me know , at lease need four , for my restaurant