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Mystery Cabernet 2010 $270/Dozen Delivered ($22.50/bt, 50% off RRP) from Winestar

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Got this deal in my email again. The deal was on few months ago. The label was pixelated to not reveal the wine but I am pretty sure this is Peter Lehmann Mentor. I have purchased this same deal from WineStar couple months back and saw the same pixelated label. It's a UK export lot.
To give us more hint this time, this is what they included in the email about the description of the deal:

______ mentored countless winemakers, this wine honours his legacy. It’s an opulent red from the fantastic 2010 vintage with blackcurrant and mulberry aromas. Its mocha flavours and vanilla pod and aniseed spices are restrained by a lick of tannins.Qantas Business/First Class; Peter Bourne & Bob Campbell MW

This is exactly what is on the wine label. I just looked at the label whilst drinking the wine 2 nights ago. An awesome wine for the price of $22.5/bottle.

No ifs, buts or maybes - this became our biggest selling wine of the year within 24 hours of being offered earlier this year, and now we have managed to source a further, albeit smaller allocation.

by request from the producer it is either a mystery or we don't do it at all. And it is not only the 96 Point Tyson Stelzer (one of the great Barossa cabernets of the modern era); 95 Point Jeremy Oliver (a fine, deeply layered and seamless Bordeaux blend of considerable finesse); 95 Point Mike Bennie (feels fancier than its price in a way: seamless, fine and flowing); 94 Point Campbell Mattinson (it’s a beautiful Barossa cab; it pretty much tastes and feels and lingers exactly how you’d like it to) ratings on the wine - not to mention the outstanding reviews.

a dark, brooding Cabernet with generous and gorgeous dark cassis and lifted violet characters that are perfectly balanced with savoury tones and well handled acidity which ensure this textural delight maintains a 'super premium' feel. On this showing, this wine would have no problem sitting alongside the same winery's $100 flagship Shiraz as their signature Cabernet - it is that good. At our price is it a quarter that of the recently released Penfolds Bin 407 and our feature wine smashes it. I rate it as 'Exceptional' with, conservatively, a decade ahead of it.

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  • 2010 is not just one of the greatest Mentors ever made, but it’s so much further ahead of all before it. The epitome of Barossa concentration but with definitive cabernet elegance, structure and longevity, this is one of the great Barossa cabernets of the modern era. The traditional Mentor recipe of Bordeaux blend meets the great Australian cabernet shiraz has been wound back to straight cabernet on the label as the market never really caught on to this blend. Such is the calibre of 2010 Barossa cabernet, mostly sourced from Light Pass and Ebenezer in the north, that just 4% each of merlot, malbec and shiraz were called for. The result is a revelation, at once dense and intense in its blackcurrant and blackberry fruit and at the same time fragrant in violet perfume, cabernet markers of capsicum and tobacco and lively in vibrant acid structure. Supportive oak lends dark chocolate and beautifully structured, firm, fine tannins, promising a very long future." - 96 Points Tyson Stelzer

    “Details aside, it’s a beautiful Barossa cab. It’s a far better regional/varietal combination than it’s often given credit. This is ripe and powerful, is of sturdy structure, and boasts clear nuances of dried herbs, tobacco and earth. Polished, smoky oak makes a positive impression. And the balance of its various components is spot on. It’s not over done or overly big; it pretty much tastes and feels and lingers exactly how you’d like it to.” – 94 Points Campbell Mattinson

    A fine, deeply layered and seamless Bordeaux blend of considerable finesse whose heady aromas of violets, cassis and pure small black and red berries are lifted by fragrant scents of fine grained French oak. It's long and elegant, with a gentle, fine-grained spine beneath its dark, plush, plummy and faintly meaty palate of briary fruit. Very finely balanced. Rating 95 - Jeremy Oliver, Austalian Wine Annual 2014

    JH was not quite so taken:
    Bright crimson-purple of medium depth; the complex array of red and black fruits are hemmed in to a degree by dry tannins, and it's far from certain whether the fruit or the tannins will prevail in the long run. My points are fence sitting. Rating 91 - Drink by 2025 - James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion (JAN/2013)

    You haven't given us your rating DLE. Might give it a go.

  • Regardless of price, if taking Penfolds Bin 407 as a benchmark, this one would beat it.

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