Glaetzer Godolphin 2005
80% Shiraz, 20% Cabernet sauvignon. Barossa, South Australia. 14.5% alcohol. Cork. Approx $A50.
Godolpin is an interesting name for a wine. So interesting that it has provoked a trademark dispute. From now the wine will be known as the equally unusual Anaperenna. Odd names and appropriated Egyptian hieroglyphics - all very clever, and certainly quite striking. I wonder if horse fanatics and neopagans will be attracted?
Seductive, silken and swollen. There are no hard edges, instead this is all creamy coconut and vanilla softness. The effect is quite compelling. It is seemingly sweet, lush, rich, dense and full. This is a wine that is sure to polarise drinkers. It is pure hedonistic pleasure, but I think some (the picky minority) will find it overdone.
Very good - excellent.
17.5/20 (93/100).
Now - 2012.
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13 comments:
Ed,
You have finally opened it! I think I would have to be one of the picky minority! I found it extremely overdone! However, I had a weird night when we opened that, along with other bottles.. even '98 Meshach was unappealing (though the best wine Mike has ever had).
I found the Godolphin to be an overly jammy wine. Out of curiosity, how long did you let it breathe? And for how long?
Phil,
A caricature wine. But still, very well done to my way of thinking. I think I waited all of 5 seconds after opening before trying it :) Not sure it would have improved much with air time, it was a very immediate and enveloping wine.
Nice finger.
GW
Yeah, I love the finger. Adds an extra something.
The Godolphin was too much for me, but I can see its hedonistic value.
GW and Shaggy,
I was thinking of buying a pair of white gloves for future photos :)
Oddly, that's not an ankh, but an older emblem of the Rosicrucian society...
Anon,
Thank you. I didn't think it was an Ankh. Though I note the company web site mentions it is.
Any idea what the name of the symbol is then?
Iirc, it's called the "mystic triangle," it's actually a logo of Amorc. I think it's sometimes viewed as incorporating an ankh, but the earlier versions all show the top loop as a sort of pendant loop over a cross and triangle.
Jennifer,
Thanks for putting me out of misery! I spent fruitless hour trying to find out what the symbol was.
Any time. :-)
A week ago I had the good fortune of taste a bottle of wine Godolphin from Barossa Valley(Australia). The bottle of wine brought her to my house a great friend (Manuel Antonio Annichiarico)to share with his wife and mine. This vine in my opinion of tasters (amateur) interests are best wine I've had an opportunity to taste.I was a wine tasting only for Gods. My rating: The maximum in any scale. Will be a long time to forget such a pleasure.
Marco Gonzalez Tous - Montería -Colombia.
E-Mail: marcog@escarsa.net.co
Well, I have a bottle of 04 and one of 05 (both gifts from the same friend who knows I am fanatical about Italian wine and wants to convert me I suspect). I have just opened the 04, and I think this is a fantastically well-made wine - very integrated and complete, but it is very fruit-packed and quite commercial in a funny kind of way. It's the smokiness that I can't quite take; I want some more complexity in the finish, I think - it's just a tad one-note - but lovely stuff...
Richard,
Agree, this is very well made and very much a fruit driven style of wines. Impressive from the very beginning, but as you say could do with a little more light and shade. . .
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