1/13/24, 5:00 PM - Waiting for your comments on that second bottle with a bit more cellar time.
12/6/23, 4:40 PM - Thanks, Morgan.
2/3/23, 11:23 AM - Actually I had heard that it was now Mike Smith from Myriad now. But, pretty sure in 2014 it was still Robert Foley!
10/9/22, 9:03 AM - Exactly, I believe that it is a terrific wine that has yet to have hit it's sweet spot!
9/2/20, 2:44 PM - Having just tasted this wine over a year later sorry to report that it would be highly likely you had a "bad" bottle. The real issue with liking older wines... by the time you drink them it would be hard to address this issue with a retailer!
3/23/20, 8:44 AM - The menthol I believe comes from being grown in proximity to eucalyptus!
3/8/17, 4:37 PM - I think that these wines suffered from reviews by people who had no notion of how they would age. Shame on the doubters!!!
4/24/16, 12:44 PM - I have been fortunate to avoid many tainted bottles. Although, I have run into three tainted bottles recently. Quite annoying... especially when we are talking about what should otherwise be magnificent bottles.
4/23/16, 3:23 PM - this was the strangest coincidence. I tasted this wine at the winery and it was special enough to want to buy a bottle and pop and pour it that night... the purchased bottle, presumably pulled from the very same lot was stewed. OTOH, the winery team was tremendously apologetic and replaced the bottle without any question!
12/19/15, 11:38 AM - Score not consistent with your note!
8/2/15, 9:38 AM - Glad to see post-reviewing that I am in line with others who had the patience to appreciate these wines at this age!
4/19/14, 6:28 AM - These wines are drinking just fine. Drink now or within the next 3-5 years is my guess!
12/2/13, 6:49 AM - I am quite familiar with this wine from earlier vintages. It was decanted for about 90 minutes and that blow off some of the residual alcohol. But, generally the alcohol tends to dissipate with real aging and this wine continues to open up and become very rich yet delicate!
12/3/13, 7:50 PM - These wines do evolve… they are just too good to resist at times! I actually opened this bottle so as not to drink my older bottles. Way more to this than an Australian fruit bomb. Then again, this winemaker is not an Aussie fruitbomb maker. Most of his wines have legs for aging!I hate it when people who drink RHone varietals from Spain or Australia at 3-5 years of age say that these wines don't evolve. Really, if they just waited or gave it a chance to hit 10-20 years of bottle age… when they are just opening up!
12/6/13, 3:51 PM - Chris Ringland is one of the truly great winemakers out there today! Jorge Ordonez is a major importer from Spain into the United States. His portfolio is fairly broad. You can't characterize it across the board because it spans from truly great old wine houses to emerging young value wineries. There are many exciting new wines emerging from Spain, and I really like the wines of Jumilla. I also really like the wines of Raul Perez imported by Patrick Mata of Ole Imports. I would also point out that at a blind tasting of refined older palates, a Spanish Garnacha was selected over great wines from CNdP and the US. You have to go into this with open eyes and go by what you are tasting from what comes out of the bottle, without pre-judgments.
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