October 10, 2021 - Glimpses of what it could have been 5 years ago
March 27, 2021 - 4th Saturday Group brown bagger (R&D's): Double blind. Shows a nit of bricking. Ripe raisiny fruit leads the way, with a bit of a funky soy quality underneath. Medium-bodied, with no noticeable tannin and flavors of ripe black fruit, plum and soy. I guessed old syrah. (T&L)
December 12, 2017 - Smooth and clean finish. This is still very good.
December 30, 2016 - Still good. Soft tannins and fruit. Nice long finish.
March 18, 2016 - Blackberry jam, cedar, pepper, tobacco, spices and some smokey oak on the finish. A-
January 23, 2016 - Fill level, cork, and wine color were all excellent, but this bottle has not aged well. Sharp, unpleasant notes of pickles and mincemeat, with no primary fruit remaining. Tasted and dumped.
April 17, 2015 - Dark dull garnet-blood red. Bouquet of stewed red fruit, rusty nails, beef blood, charcoal ashes. Full body, velvety, generous wine. After reading other notes on this wine, maybe it needed a longer decant, or perhaps past prime?
April 14, 2013 - Gave 4-5 hours of air in decanter. Mature amber purple in the glass. Great nose of baking spices, aged wood, twigs, and all manner of berries. The palate expands with cocoa, vanilla, figs, dust and thick bright fruit. A mature tannin layer keeps everything lively. Finishes wonderfully with all the nose elements returning. PJG: 91
February 11, 2013 - W porkchop on last nite in JH. This was a gift. Good mature color (syrah??). Good solid nose of dark berries. On palate nice fruit and woody flavors. Good finish. This will not get better but it was very fresh and solid. Great combo withthe food.
January 19, 2013 - Drinking excellently. Very well balanced. Caramel notes with blackberry. Plenty of life left.