Still surprisingly good - a little hollow in the middle, but nothing that would suggest the wine is flawed in any way. Had to use a Durand to extract the soft cork, but enjoyed the wine. Any time you can drink a wine 30 years old and it’s not off, flawed, over the hill, you have to feel pretty good. So I feel good about this.
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nose - blackberry, sweet and roasty ripe fruit mouth-surripe, lush, fig and rum raisin. Napa full fruited, fruity bomby while still not being totally over the top. High EtOH.
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Tasted blind, good fruit, very pleasing though while it was bagged it wasn’t garnering too much attention, though I remember liking it and thinking it was one of the better wines of the night. However we all agreed that it didn’t have any of the funk and earthy complexity of the 96 or 95. We surmised that it didn’t get much/any cab franc but it’s total supposition. Good but next year they step it up a notch.
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5/6/2024 - randyjc wrote: 90 Points
Still surprisingly good - a little hollow in the middle, but nothing that would suggest the wine is flawed in any way. Had to use a Durand to extract the soft cork, but enjoyed the wine. Any time you can drink a wine 30 years old and it’s not off, flawed, over the hill, you have to feel pretty good. So I feel good about this.
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3/15/2023 - beerwineben Likes this wine: 92 Points
Drank over two days, really opened up nicely by the second day. Wonderful old merlot.
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7/15/2022 - beerwineben Likes this wine: 93 Points
Really great, flavors of blackberry prominent, earthiness on the nose.
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6/26/2022 - soyhead wrote:
nose - blackberry, sweet and roasty ripe fruit
mouth-surripe, lush, fig and rum raisin. Napa full fruited, fruity bomby while still not being totally over the top. High EtOH.
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1/8/2022 - soyhead wrote:
Tasted blind, good fruit, very pleasing though while it was bagged it wasn’t garnering too much attention, though I remember liking it and thinking it was one of the better wines of the night. However we all agreed that it didn’t have any of the funk and earthy complexity of the 96 or 95. We surmised that it didn’t get much/any cab franc but it’s total supposition. Good but next year they step it up a notch.
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