Community Tasting Note
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David Paris (dbp) wrote: 90 points
June 3, 2016 - This bottle is really good... the best I've had. It starts out a bit awkward but then gets quite good after just 15 minutes in the glass. The aromas show some wood spice, pepper, lovely spiced bramble berries. Absolutely lovely and luscious notes. Palate texture is quite soft, but tannins do immediately attack on the palate and build as its held in the mouth. Flavors are dark fruited and mellow, not too strong or deep. Finish has lovely acid, then 2 seconds later tons of tannins. These subside after 10 seconds to reveal mid toned dark red fruit and lots of herbal components that are lovely. Honestly this wine could continue to go on another 5+ years, based on this showing. If I knew this would have wound up here I wouldn't have stopped buying the new vintages years ago, when those early bottles weren't all that impressive.
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