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Yellow tail shiraz , 2006

Yellow tail shiraz , 2006 Review



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Sweet , overly manipulated , artificialy flavoured critter wine
1 star rating

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Pros

    Wine for rookies

Cons
    Residual sugar , dominant artificial van

FEB
24
2008
This is probably the biggest selling wine in America and typifies the "Talk dry but drink sweet" winedrinker.

Yellowtail has about 1% resdidual sugar and noticable additives such as Tannin Plus and other artificialy added vanillian character . These are added to many budget wines to give them oak aged character with out the expence of barrel ageing . Only Yellow tail takes it too far.

So the varietal character of their red wines are lost behind the mask of sweetness and vanillia.
If you are a dry wine drinker who spluges from time to time on a nice Napa Cabernet or Oregon Pinot Noir you will not like yellowtail.

If you want a freindly label "critter wine" that will be a hit at your next BBQ with your friends with a less developed pallet , this is probably the best wine out there for that.

Zac

Last edited on Mar 03, 2008


I_thumb_down Yellow tail shiraz , 2006 is not recommended by bzac


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Matt wrote on Mar 31, 2008 at 3:59PM


Critter wine. Love that term. So what do you highly recommend?