July 19, 2021 - Openned 3 hour before trying. Very smooth, subtle fruit but did not improve with additional time. Might be gettimg to the end of it life.
April 11, 2021 - This was not “done”. I’m not a fan of older wines, but this still had fruit in the glass, and was balanced with that chocolate. Berries on the nose, with soft tannins and hint of tobacco and leather lingering. Aged well, and was not the “dead bottle” I was expecting based on the ratings.
Decanted for three hours.
January 17, 2016 - Still a bit of life left in this. Not a whole lot of vibrant fruit though. Dark cherry and chocolate - soft tannins.
February 23, 2015 - The wine looks ruby colored. The legs are slow. There is light sediment in the bottle. It smells like black currant (cassis), plum, cherry, oak, cinnamon, chocolate and black pepper. It tastes like black currant (cassis), cherry, oak, black pepper, cinnamon and chocolate. The body is medium. The wine has silky texture. The wine finishes long. The wine has low acidity.
January 10, 2015 - Give it time to open up. Sandalwood and dried cherries. Enjoy now.
May 25, 2014 - Really showing it's age. A lot of tar that jumps out and lingers after the fruit.
April 5, 2014 - This one's still kicking, but better drink them now because it's near the end of its window. Great pairing with a BBQ steak. Kind of reminded us of a French wine at this point of its life. The later vintage Andrus' are more my liking, but this one is interesting.
January 6, 2014 - opened and tasted, very good drank an hour later and over next 2 hours
a very dependable wine still. Probable peaked a few years ago. No age show yet though clean and great finish.
January 1, 2013 - Loads of blackcurrant on the nose and on the palate. Very smooth, soft and supple tannins are well-integrated. I didn't observe any bricking and the color was still very dark (although we drank it in a semi-dark restaurant so I didn't have a great chance to really gauge the color. Beautiful, thick legs. Really like this wine.
October 13, 2012 - Good not great, decanted for 2 hours and it was enjoyable. oaky tannins and a hint of black cherry. would not wait too much longer on this one.