5/23/2015 - jmd60611 wrote:

Very rich, spicy and nice...youthful

10/12/2013 - jmd60611 wrote:

Rich and full bodied...black berry flavors, a little chalk, long finish...very tasty brew

9/13/2013 - jmd60611 Likes this wine:

Drank this with Megan as our anniversary dinner wine...Quite a bit lighter than i remember, but beautiful and elegant, did not have power as much as sophistication

9/28/2013 - jmd60611 Likes this wine:

Big, bright and delicious...lot's of rich fruit very well integrated with a long delicious finish...The last bottle of the 4 was still bit tight, so it was either pallet or fatigue, but I'd say that these still could use a few more years of age to see what happens to them

6/4/2013 - jmd60611 Likes this wine:

still thinking about this wine day after...beautiful integration, pretty perfect, a little sweet cherry, absolutely a favorite that is drinking awesome right now

12/20/2010 - jmd60611 wrote:

really yummy...rich and concentrated, delicious dark chaky, big fruit that is drinking really well right now

12/18/2010 - jmd60611 wrote:

I liked this wine also, a bit more towards the austere end of the WS pinot's, but an hour or so opened this wine was bright, cheery laden with structure and balance...I liked it mucho

12/18/2010 - jmd60611 wrote:

Beautiful, earthy rich and bright...I openened but didn't decant for 3 hours or so...big difference in rounding from initial tasting at "pop"

10/22/2010 - jmd60611 wrote:

Delicious toasty, silky velvet...Very rich and in no way over any age curve

5/12/2010 - jmd60611 wrote:

Extraordiry wine...Still quite bright and extremly rich this mature champagne had everything...citrus, big bread notes and was perfectly balanced from top to bottom...delicious

10/24/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Ruby red and still full of bright fresh fruit...the first two hours were wonderful with this wine but after it seemed to let itself go...Rich, beautifully structured wine though

6/29/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Super concentrated, deep purple big full and young...Great structure, depth and backbone...Bright yet rich fruit...hands off for three years and let's see how this monster develops

6/9/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Still drinking great..Rich, but not over the top with great balance and purity...still getting better wait 3 years for the next one

6/2/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Too bad, all gone...delicious deep and rich...Not for the faint of heart this is a big pinot with rich ripe fruit, but very balanced....quite excellent

5/31/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Really tasty syrah, jammy, tannic and really rich and lucious

5/31/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Delicious rich chard with real substance and structure...A bit of oak and a bit of butter but massive rich ripe fruit

5/31/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Ordinary and a bit boring, didn't hate it, but hard to love...

5/24/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Big, Rich and jammy...Great wine with great spice content that really stood up well to the carne asada, a big hit

5/24/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Dark, a bit earthy and funky with a spry acidic backbone that was really nice with the lightly spiced mexican appetizer course...Red fruit, cherries and strawberries

5/18/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Drinking beautifully...Full bodied spicey zin with all the stuufing

5/16/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Drank 5 750's pretty much popped and poured all evening after the 2000 magnum, big improvement to the 00...Much more fruit and substance with stuffing, body and texture to spare...After much of this I started to beb for some complexity, that I did not find after mass consumption of this fruit monster, the wine is still primary but outstanding IMO

5/16/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Very austere, hints of fruit left to the wine, but this magnum was beyond it's prime

5/10/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Delicious and crisp and fine....citrus and balanced, great food wine

5/10/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Beautiful rich, finely balanced but big....loads of chocolate

5/9/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Delicious...drinking beautifully now,

5/3/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Everyone really loved this monster...deep purple, big rich a bit monolithic perhaps, but really complemented the prime bone in rib eye steak

5/3/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

a really nice drinking syrah, viogner blend with an acidic backbone that really made it more food wineish than cocktailish

5/3/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

A great rich old wine...Brownish, a bit tight after a double decant, but she opened up and offered up a rich textured melange of soft fruit, smoky meat and structure

3/7/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

hell of a bottle of wine, really ripe rich fruit with great structure and a crisp tannic backbone...still a teenager with several years of evolution at minimum to it's future

3/7/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

really nice wine...A bit more light and elegant in style than a lot of the right bankers of the same evening but a super balanced, bright fresh great drinker

3/7/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Now we're talking. Super rich, deeply fruited with lovely luscious mouthwatering potency. Still young, will get nicer, but excellent wine

3/7/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Just delicious a bit tight on opening, but next day was really special with lovely depth and ripeness as well as an earthy bordeaux quality

3/4/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Really good pinot, a bit richer, a bit more blue fruit than red but well balanced and very nice for a more full bodied pinot noir

3/4/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Drinking beautifully now....Really well balanced and mid bodied, bordeaux like more red than blue

2/28/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Drinking well, but too deep into a multi bottle evening to remember much else

2/28/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Very impressed, still young with drying tannins, deep plum, heavy minerality wonderful potion....4 bottles consumed

2/10/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Pulled the cork about 12 hours prior, deep rich color, wonderful aromatics but while rich upfront, broke down a bit in the middle, distinct acidic after taste, still a good wine but not as great as I've been expecting from PB 00....Not corked but perhaps off bottle

2/2/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Really drinking well, super rich and very well integrated...

2/2/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Really purple, really young but thick viscous and dry...This was great with really drying tannins, but just frickin big and layered and juicy ripe

1/29/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Loved the earthy rich opening salvo...well balance, rich medium bodied pinot with an especially long finish...Great wine

1/29/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Fantastic, rich complex brew. Still very youthful. Layers upon layers of flavors and oh such a finish

1/18/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Drinking superbly right now...Beautifully balanced smooth rich big fruit wine that surprised me

1/11/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Very nuanced if not just a tad austere...Still a strong performance, with great aromatics

1/11/2009 - jmd60611 wrote:

Deep and rich with impressive balance and complexity....Drinking really well now

12/20/2008 - jmd60611 wrote:

Love where this wine is right now....Still developing secondary charachter but big mouthfeel with layers and layer of dry chalky tannins and an extra long beutiful finish

11/28/2008 - jmd60611 wrote:

Really super bottle of extraordinary zin....Layers of gushing fruit, still a bit primary....leave resting for 3 more years and than revisit

11/23/2008 - jmd60611 wrote:

light, crisp and floral....rich without layers, this is a really nice bright white

11/23/2008 - jmd60611 wrote:

Super dense, chalky and rich this is still a little baby....Beautiful floral nose, heavy tannins and a finish that may have lasted all night....Let sit for 3 more years till next bottle

11/17/2008 - jmd60611 wrote:

Deep rich and very structured...This is really nicely layaered and complex with a richness and smoothness that is almost silky....excellent finish

11/10/2008 - jmd60611 wrote:

Quite tasty, purple young, layered big deep rich tannic muvah...Like it a lot, let em rest