Sunday, January 17, 2010 - tasted this at the winery and loved it several years ago, but this bottle was flat, a bit oaky, and boring. Wasn;t corked. Maybe slightly off? plenty of $8 closeout bottles that outperform this one. Again, i really like novy/siduri, so may have just been slightly off?
update after a bit more breathing, a nice charcoally element comes out on the finish and it fills out a bit more. upgraded to 86-87, still a bit monolithic.