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2014 Rocky Ox GSM
Rusty Mutt Rocky Ox GSM Decanter UK 95 Points
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2014 Rusty Mutt Rocky Ox GSM

$38.50

My favourite GSM vintage, which aslo happens to be the very first vintage! This wine looked quite unusual when it was first bottled. Really intense spice and quite vibrant fruit flavours that almost didn’t seem real!

It was rated as the equal top Australian GSM in a Decanter Magazine (UK) tasting a few years ago.

95 Points Decanter UK

93+++ Points Philip White

91 Points James Halliday

Read some of the reviews below.

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The first Rusty Mutt GSM. Made from more than 60% of an amazing 80-year-old, dry grown bush vine Grenache vineyard from the cool Clarendon area of McLaren Vale. The thoughtful blending of the Shiraz and Mataro adds complexity, texture and depth to the palate. Best try some while there’s still a little museum stock left. You’ll soon see why Decanter magazine UK gave it 95 points and rated it as one of the top three GSM’s in Australia!

“This intriguingly spicy, faintly iodiney blend muscled its way into my top three for its bright supple-textured fruit, because I’ve never heard of it, and because I have a suspicion that it’s one of the best value wines in the tasting. 95 Drink 2016 – 2019″

Anthony Rose, Decanter UK, March 2016

“60/30/10%, crushed and destemmed, open-fermented with cultured yeast, 10-12 days on skins, matured for 12 months in used French and American oak. Has more structure and texture than many, this going hand in glove with more savoury tannins than usual, and no hint of confected fruit. Although slightly left field, I think it works well.”

James Halliday – Published on 11 Aug 2016

Here’s an amazing review written by wine critic Philip White;

Rusty Mutt Rocky Ox McLaren Vale GSM 2014
$28; 14.5% alcohol; screw cap; 93+++ points

“From Bernard Smart’s ancient bush vine vineyard – his personal one – high above the Onkaparinga Gorge, which presents a splendid southerly vista over the whole of McLaren Vale to the Gulf St Vincent, patron of viticulturers, the base wine here is about as good as Vales Grenache gets. Winemaker Scott Heidrich has added bits of Shiraz and Mataro to add a sinister gunmetal glint to both the colour and bouquet of that rosy morello cherry Grenache.

It’s added black flavours, too. The wine is as slick and sensuous and as deadly as an asp. It has jet swarf rather than tannin, after steely whiprod acidity. It actually tastes shiny and black. It is neither rusty nor muttish, but more your polished hybrid.

This wine is a delicious, vibrant example of the difference between Grenache and the old GSM blend first labelled so at Rosemount in the ‘nineties. All these ingredient wines are first class examples of their style, so it’s a pure and true blend. But these darkening tones contributed by even the smallest percentages of Shiraz and Mataro quickly move you from the strawberry field and cherry orchard to the blacksmith’s forge. Which, let’s face it, is a more traditional place to be for the older Australian wino.  Even when it’s this silky and shiny. It’ll probably entice the shiniest, silkiest, most slick-backed drinkers. Turf Cork-tipped smokers. Or Craven A.

Flamenco dancers.

Tea-smoked duck and shiitake eaters.”

Philip White 25/9/2015
View the original post on Drinkster here.

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Weight 1.17 kg
Dimensions 29 × 9 × 8 cm
Decanter Magazine UK

95 Points. Rated in the top 3 Australia GSM's tasted, out of 71 wines.

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