Critics Average score from professional wine critics and publications.
86
/100
Reviews
16
professional
Vintages
1
2005
Other
86/100
Shiraz
NV
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2020
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Taster #7189
· Feb 9, 2013
90/100
Turns out this was age-worthy after all...
2005 vintage
Taster #5108
· Apr 2, 2008
88/100
Decent, but no #72. Fairly balanced for this price, with nice fruit and spice.
2005 vintage
Taster #9632
· Mar 16, 2008
88/100
For a $10.00 bottle of wine you could not ask for more. It was not as spicy as some of the Aussie Shirazs that are out there but it was very drinkable.
2005 vintage
Taster #7432
· Feb 22, 2008
88/100
I still like this, its a fruit bomb with some spice notes, better after some air gets to it, but for 10 bucks, very worthy.
2005 vintage
Taster #8720
· Jan 22, 2008
This got a little better with some air, but still nowhere near a 90 point wine. Too much fake fruit and disjointed alcohol.
2005 vintage
Taster #8058
· Jan 5, 2008
84/100
Nose and tasting is consistent with Seanr7, and I must agree with many of the previous notes. This to me is a typical low end Aussie Shiraz and is not a 90 point wine.
2005 vintage
Taster #4956
· Dec 18, 2007
88/100
I can't justify the WS 90 point rating (My palate never agrees with Harvey Steiman), however this is a good effort for yellow tail. Nice, peppery blackberry, vanilla, big tannins. Certainly a good QPR.
2005 vintage
Taster #9014
· Dec 8, 2007
87/100
Bought this wine because of the dust-up over being number 72 in the Wine Spectator Top 100. I have had Yellow Tail one time in my life and swore I would never try it again. Well I am glad i gave it one more chance. Dark reddish purple color, the nose is vanilla and blackberry. Not complex but this wine has a nice mouth feel, sweet cherry, blackberry with a hint of pepper on the 10 second finish. I will …
2005 vintage
Taster #9088
· Nov 26, 2007
Not a bad wine. Not a great wine either.
2005 vintage
Taster #3736
· Nov 25, 2007
87/100
The last time I tried a bottle of Yellow Tail Shiraz, it was dreadful. So bad, in fact, that it went down the drain. I happened to notice this YT reserve at number 72 on Wine Spectator's list of Top 100 wines. My curiosity was peaked . . . either YT is doing something bloody brilliant or someone at WS is smoking dope. I laid out the cash -- all $10 of it and tried it last night against an …
2005 vintage
Taster #7432
· Nov 21, 2007
91/100
very good after decanting for about 1hr, opened up nicely, nice long finish
2005 vintage
Taster #5084
· Sep 27, 2007
87/100
Definite hints of Coco and Vanilla on the nose. Nice fruity tannins with a berry flavor on the palate. Decent wine.
2005 vintage
Taster #6861
· Sep 11, 2007
84/100
Artificial and sugarfied in flavor profile.
2005 vintage
Taster #9141
· Jun 14, 2007
Clear, dark opeque core leading out to a vibrant purple rim. Wine looks young and concentrated. ON the nose it's clean, intense ripe dark fruits, a bit of coco and its showing quite hot. The palate is dry, med acid with low soft fruity tannins, big fruit intesity of plums, prune and dark berries. A good dose of oak is also in here. some vanilla and cinamon notes as well. Medium + body. Medium fruit forward finnish. This wine is …
2005 vintage
Taster #7656
· Jun 13, 2007
75/100
Not recomended....
2005 vintage
Taster #6230
· Apr 11, 2007
85/100
. 85/100 Color: 5/5 -- Beautful dark red/maroon. Almost Petite Sirah dark. Nose: 11/15 -- Nose is pretty full, blackberry jam, chocolate. Alcohol is apparent though. Flavor: 7/10 -- Flavor is good. Very extracted, deep berry flavors. The alcohol found on the nose really wasn't noticable on the palate. Finish: 7/10 -- Subsides nicely from the palate. Finish isn't dramatic, but there's chocolate berries, maybe with some coffee thrown in. Potential: 5/10 -- While I like this wine, it did …
2005 vintage
Taster #6182
· Mar 19, 2007
78/100
This is not a good bottle of wine. The color is impressively dark, and the nose is satisfactory. However, the big problem with thsi one was the finish. It tasted like I was drinking Vick's cherry nyquil cough syrup, and aa lot of it. Everything up to that point was good, possibly even rating an 87-88, but the finish is absolutely horrible.
2005 vintage
Taster #6479
· Mar 9, 2007
89/100
We tasted this and the regular 2005 Shiraz in the same night, and this one won hands-down -- it's nothing at all like the regular Yellow Tail. It was initially very dense and slightly fruity, but also very harsh with a bitter, cotton-dry finish. The nose opened up relatively quickly, revealing dark fruit and some licorice, and the flavor improved after a half hour of decanting, but the finish didn't start to smooth out for another hour. It improved dramatically …
2005 vintage
Taster #5626
· Sep 23, 2006
Mellow, some licorice in the back.
2005 vintage
Taster #1144
· Jul 10, 2006
86/100
A little too sweet, but concentrated and tasty for the price.
2005 vintage