Rating stays the same. This wine has not changed over last several years in cellar. It’s simply amazing but it needs air. Lots of room for further improvement. I will check back in another 3-5 years.
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This wine is so big yet so refined. It is dark, inky purple. The nose of cherry and flowers has smoke lurking in the background. You could spend the evening smelling this wine—just an amazing perfumed nose. The body is velvety and thick, but with a great lift of acidity offsetting the massive layers of plums, cherries, and currants. There is a long elegant finish with wonderfully supple tannins. It is drinking great right now and will certainly continue to improve for a decade and be great for another 30 years.
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Elegant and powerful wine, still lots of fruit notes from the primary side, but this currently gaining more complexity through age. Palate is fine and with a perfectly integrated acidity. I'd wait for 4+ more years in the cellar.
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This wine is amazing. Please do not be alarmed when you first pour this. It will be austere and very closed and all you will smell is funkiness maybe smoked meat? After a long decant or, for me, the next day the wine exploded into a dark cherry bomb, dark meat with a long long savory finish. This wine is clearly in infant stage. Will wait another few years to pop one. No more infanticide!
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This is superb in every sense of the word, from start to finish! Dark, almost the color of black-purple ink, the combination of smoke, roasted black, red and blue fruits, licorice and flint in the nose only hints at what this wine will become if you can wait another decade. The wine manages to perfectly balance incredible levels of density with lift, purity of fruit and at least 60 seconds of a seamless, palate-staining, tasting experience.
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Tasted with a friend a few months back with a coravin. Something was missing. Popped the cork and gave it some air and this is singing. The nose has a certain deep dark fruit sweetness rising up that I can't describe but it is great. A previous taster came up with the word kaleidoscopic fruit to describe the flavor and while I would not have come up with that it is a perfect description. Special
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Incredibly pure nose of (pardon the hyperbole) kaleidoscopic fruit, very primary. Palate follows suit with fantastic class, purity and ridiculous depth. This needs 20 years, will be amazing, and should be absolutely lovely along the way.
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6/21/2023 - UFGators Likes this wine:
Rating stays the same. This wine has not changed over last several years in cellar. It’s simply amazing but it needs air. Lots of room for further improvement. I will check back in another 3-5 years.
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3/18/2023 - davidrh1 Likes this wine: 99 Points
This wine is so big yet so refined. It is dark, inky purple. The nose of cherry and flowers has smoke lurking in the background. You could spend the evening smelling this wine—just an amazing perfumed nose. The body is velvety and thick, but with a great lift of acidity offsetting the massive layers of plums, cherries, and currants. There is a long elegant finish with wonderfully supple tannins. It is drinking great right now and will certainly continue to improve for a decade and be great for another 30 years.
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7/29/2022 - morv Likes this wine: 97 Points
Elegant and powerful wine, still lots of fruit notes from the primary side, but this currently gaining more complexity through age. Palate is fine and with a perfectly integrated acidity. I'd wait for 4+ more years in the cellar.
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4/29/2022 - merlotsmile Likes this wine: 95 Points
Vinminnen 8
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5/21/2021 - Bobby Burgundy wrote: 97 Points
Very good try again in 5-10 years 2026-2031
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8/2/2020 - UFGators Likes this wine: 97 Points
This wine is amazing. Please do not be alarmed when you first pour this. It will be austere and very closed and all you will smell is funkiness maybe smoked meat? After a long decant or, for me, the next day the wine exploded into a dark cherry bomb, dark meat with a long long savory finish. This wine is clearly in infant stage. Will wait another few years to pop one. No more infanticide!
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2/2/2020 - Brian of Mull Likes this wine: 98 Points
Outrageously good wine. Dark red fruits , violets , tar and beef blood. Long finish and mouthfeel of pure silk. This is so smooth.
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11/11/2019 - Jeff Leve wrote: 99 Points
This is superb in every sense of the word, from start to finish! Dark, almost the color of black-purple ink, the combination of smoke, roasted black, red and blue fruits, licorice and flint in the nose only hints at what this wine will become if you can wait another decade. The wine manages to perfectly balance incredible levels of density with lift, purity of fruit and at least 60 seconds of a seamless, palate-staining, tasting experience.
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1/7/2019 - Skip4wine wrote: 97 Points
Tasted with a friend a few months back with a coravin. Something was missing. Popped the cork and gave it some air and this is singing. The nose has a certain deep dark fruit sweetness rising up that I can't describe but it is great. A previous taster came up with the word kaleidoscopic fruit to describe the flavor and while I would not have come up with that it is a perfect description. Special
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9/7/2015 - Niagara wrote: 96 Points
My mind is officially blown. Find it, swallow hard, pay the money, drink it. You will not be making a mistake.
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5/30/2014 - joshbryer Likes this wine:
Incredibly pure nose of (pardon the hyperbole) kaleidoscopic fruit, very primary. Palate follows suit with fantastic class, purity and ridiculous depth. This needs 20 years, will be amazing, and should be absolutely lovely along the way.
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